Program Overview

Department of Architecture

The Department of Architecture at the National University of Singapore offers a range of programs in architecture and related fields.

Programs

• BACHELOR OF ARTS IN ARCHITECTURE
• BACHELOR OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
• Master of Architecture
• Master of Landscape Architecture
• MASTER OF ARTS IN ARCHITECTURAL CONSERVATION
• Master of Science, Integrated Sustainable Design
• Master of Arts in Urban Design
• Master of Urban Planning
• DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY and MASTER OF ARTS By RESEARCH (Architecture)

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture

The Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (BLA) is a four-year Honours degree program that prepares students to respond to multifaceted socio-ecological issues in Asia through critical thinking, analytical inquiry, and creative expression.

About BLA

BLA provides core foundation training in skills and knowledge that equips our graduates for professional practice or entry into advanced Master degree programs. Relevant topics, including tropicality, site specificity, boundaries and scales, densification, multifunctionality, and placemaking are played out in the program through integrated learning platforms in design studios and lectures.

NUS Landscape Architecture

NUS Landscape Architecture is a core program of Asia’s premier school of design and the built environment. Starting from the inception of the Master of Landscape Architecture in 2009, NUS Landscape Architecture has grown to also offer the Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, marking an exciting milestone for tertiary-level landscape architecture education in Singapore.

Curriculum

The program is distinctively Asian and pantropical in its geographic attention and urban in its emphasis. With our central location in one of the most dynamic, diverse, and rapidly urbanizing regions of the world, we aim to provide a landscape architecture education that is sensitive to the myriad challenges facing Asian cities, as well as opportunities provided by the sheer richness of heritage and cultural, socio-economic, and ecological elements of the region.

Research Areas

The Department of Architecture has various research clusters and labs, including:

• Design Education Research
• Research by Design
• History, Theory, Criticism
• Technologies
• Urbanism
• Landscape Studies
• Work and Publications
• News + Events
• Urban Climate Design Lab (UCDL)
• Urban Analytics Lab
• Urban Ecology Lab
• SkyTimber: Tropical Renewable Architecture Design Lab
• Civic Resilience Lab
• Urban Transitions Lab
• Urban Wild Lab

Research Centers

The department is also home to several research centers, including:

• Tun Tan Cheng Lock Centre
• Campus Design Innovations Group
• Centre for Advanced Studies in Architecture
• Centre for Environment and Ageing Well (ENgAGE)
• International Network for Tropical Architecture (iNTA)
• Designing Resilience in Asia International Research Programme (DRIA)