Architecture OPEN HOUSE 2025
Why Should You Pursue Architecture at NUS?
NUS Architecture Champions Design in Asia
We have a unique position in Asia with access to a top-ranked university, and connections to the best architects, designers, and academics globally.
Professor Hitoshi Abe from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) joined us for one semester as the Ong Siew May Distinguished Visiting Professor for the Academic Year 2023/2024 Semester 1 where he led one of our Master of Architecture studios.
B.A. Architecture Semester 1 Final Review (November 2023)
NUS Architecture is 5th in the World (QS2024 World University Rankings)
Our international faculty comprises of 56 full-time members, and over 120 adjunct professors, lecturers and tutors of various nationalities. Their expertise and research interests are organised into 6 clusters: (1) design technologies, (2) research by design, (3) history, theory and criticism, (4) urbanism, (5) landscape studies, and (6) design education.
‘To Gather: The Architecture of Relationships’ Singapore Pavillion at the 17th Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition (2021). Gerda Studio.
Read about the three exhibits featuring studio projects and research by DoA students here.
We have 800 students from over 15 nationalities. The works of our students and faculty have been featured in exhibitions all over the world: National Design Centre, URA Gallery and National Library Building in Singapore, Venice Biennale International Architecture Exhibition and Aedes Gallery in Berlin, to name a few. Our alumni continue to create cutting-edge work, and we are proud to have produced 10 President Design Award winners – the most prestigious award for designers in Singapore.
NUS Architecture cultivates a sensibility to the tropical region
NUS Architecture rethinks how architecture can be responsive to the tropics in ways that are imaginative, sustainable and surprising. The tropics is the epicentre of the world’s crops and resources. We use architecture to shape our climatic conditions and resources, and to create conditions that cultivate societies and cultures.
Connecting theory to the real world, we focus on topics dealing with climate change, construction, urbanism, conservation, social good, new technologies, translational research and practice.
‘(Re)development of the Riverside Village’, the graduation project of Master of Architecture student Choi Seung Hyeok from the 2022/2023 cohort was awarded the Participate in Design Award for Best Master’s Thesis Project in 2023. His thesis tackles the climatic and social issues of flooding on the Ciliwung River, reviewing the positives and negatives of government measures, community interventions and individual efforts in response to flooding. Read about it here.
NUS Architecture innovates architecture for a changing world
Our graduates are trained for agility, to think on their feet, to be able to adapt, thrive and grow in all kinds of circumstances.
Architecture studio site visit to Hiraenoki Village in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. Tsuto Sakamoto.
A Cinematic Architecture of Melaka workshop run at the DoA’s Tun Tan Cheng Lock Centre for Asian Architecture and Urban Heritage in Melaka, February 2023. Read about it here.
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