MISSION

Our mission is to educate professional, honest and self-confident architects, designers and urban planners who have principles and responsibility in the process of the design, construction and planning of the built environment that will contribute to the socio-economic and cultural development of societies. The Faculty has adopted the principle of reintegrating those who will practice this profession into the society as individuals who perceive and analyze cultural, social and physical qualifications of natural and built environment, who attach importance to the arrangement of values and forms suitable to the cultural patterns to protect the environment and provide the sustainable growth and change, who combine existing theoretical knowledge, skills and design methodology with practice paradigms, who emphasize the integration of knowledge from other disciplines in the design process composed of analysis, synthesis, and production, who understand the relationship between past, present and future, and who are in pursuit of current designs.

VISION

Our vision is to provide a high-quality education based on the production of design and planning knowledge fed by free thought and artistic creativity by taking account of universal and cultural values and the understanding of modern science and art. The vision involves the following objectives: * to create an inspirational, influential and intellectual educational environment, * to take professional discipline a step further with research-based Master’s Degree programs after undergraduate education, * to carry out research, professional and academic activities, to hold exhibitions, and to publish in order to increase national and international recognition, * to contribute to the interdisciplinary education and research programs in cooperation with the other units of the university, other local and international educational institutions, professional chambers, and local administrations, * to serve the public by working together with the community, local administrations, municipalities, private sectors, and professional organizations.