Architecture is comprised of the wide spheres of design and planning, structure and construction, environment and facilities, materials and execution, history, as well as laws and regulations. The Department of Architecture has prepared a curriculum which makes it possible to study a good balance of all these. Such a curriculum was formulated from the intention of wanting to impart a comprehensive ability that combines an extensive grounding in engineering knowledge and technology, as well as historic and artistic qualities. Future architects and technical experts actively involved in constructions especially first-class architects will of course need the integrated strength of sophisticated expertise and an ability to respond to the diverse needs of society.

From the first semester of the first year, the department has deployed the required subjects for an introduction to architecture, such a “Basic Drafting and Design”, “Introduction to Architectural Design”, “Introduction to Structural Design”, “Introduction to Environmental Design”. These heighten the enthusiasm of every student that enters the University aspiring to architecture and create a foundation which enables them to confidently move on to specialized areas of study. In the second year, architecture is studied extensively and in a good balance; in the third year and especially the latter half-year , deep study of specialist knowledge in each field is conducted that is divided into architectural design, structural design and environmental design.

Teaching staff of the department provide detailed academic instruction with enthusiasm. This is under a system with small numbers of people and the motto of “affection for students”. Many teaching staff maintain design offices, perform actual design activities and have hands-on research and development experience at corporations, so an education is developed which does not stop at just desk-top theory. Learning at university has a high degree of freedom, which is different from that up to senior high school, so respective independence and ambition is important. Although confirming levels of understanding and subject work, teaching staff of the department have ample communication with each and every student and strive to see students stand up on their own initiative.

Starting with a drafting room containing 140 drafting boards, the environment and facilities for education and research have been very much put in place; these include design rooms, structural testing laboratories, materials testing laboratories, environmental testing laboratories and soil testing laboratories. There is also experimental equipment which cannot be found at other universities such as a large scale wind tunnel and thermal stratification wind tunnel. Furthermore, the Department of Architecture at this university has the world class research and education venue the “Wind Engineering Research Center”, with its research project “Wind Effects on Towns and Buildings” having been selected for the 21st century COE program by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. Not only strong wind disasters, heat islands, air pollution, drafts and natural ventilation, wind power energy, but also problems in relation to “wind” and towns, buildings, and the global environment, such as climate change and global warming that are occurring on a global scale, have respectively become critical issues for mankind on a wide level. The “Wind Engineering Research Center” is vigorously conducting education research concerning such “wind” issues and has acquired praise for being the world’s foremost wind engineering research location.

Amidst the aforementioned learning environment, we hope to nurture people that thoroughly consider objectives and policies for themselves and are able to solve various problems. It is our hope that students become this type of human resource.