ABOUT THE PROGRAMME
Our cities are increasingly shaped and reshaped by an enormous amount of data emerged as a result of technological, social and institutional innovations. This new circumstance profoundly influences the way we interact with the physical and virtual environments, raising unprecedented challenges in many aspects. How do architects and urban professionals respond to this disruptive change? How can we reinvent ourselves, embracing new knowledge and methodologies and harnessing new technologies and tools to stay relevant and regenerate our cities towards a resilient, equitable and liveable future?
The Bachelor of Architecture Programme in Urban Regeneration and Design is developed to address these questions. Seated at Tsinghua University in China, this programme provides students with an unparalleled learning opportunity. It leverages the university’s comprehensive set of disciplines and especially its world’s leading research on computer science and digital technologies to craft a new architectural education that is interdisciplinary, design-oriented, and technology-based. Taking China’s urbanisation as a fertile soil for design innovation, it also involves students in real-world urban regeneration projects as an integral part of the study to nurture their talents and abilities through knowledge application.
Fully taught in English, this programme aims to equip graduates with strategic vision, cutting-edge knowledge, technological competence, innovative creativity, social responsibility, and all necessary skills to become future leaders to create better cities in and beyond Asia.
WHY THE PROGRAMME
Design education augmented by computing
Architectural and urban design in the new era will have to engage with the opportunities opened by computer science and AI technologies. Understanding and applying latest technologies and tools through the lens of design thinking is a core ability for students to grasp complex urban problems and generate innovative solutions.
Multi-disciplinary learning based on personalised projects
Leveraging Tsinghua University’s comprehensive set of disciplines, the specially crafted curriculum provides students with ample rooms to customise and pursue multi-disciplinary projects under the collaborative supervision of tutors from different schools and departments.
Embedded learning in urban regeneration practice
China’s urbanisation provides a fertile soil for innovative ideas of urban regeneration. To study in China is to live and relive China’s urban development experiences, involving in real-world urban regeneration practice as part of the study and reflecting on how contemporary challenges are dealt with.
An Asian perspective on urban challenges beyond Asia
The teaching faculty is drawn from an international cast of experts with rich experiences of Asian cities. This Asia-focused perspective helps students become future-ready urban professionals to deal with urban challenges in and beyond Asian cities.
Independent thinkers and leaders with excellent career prospects
Tsinghua graduates are always highly sought after by employers. With visionary insights, technological competency, and real-world experiences, graduates from this programme are anticipated to excel as designers, consultants, policymakers, entrepreneurs, civil servants, among many others, in various sectors of urban development around the world.
