◆ Background
This department, originally erected in 1991, included only two programs, five-year and two-year colleges. In 1998, a new program of two-year technique college was founded in this department. Rather, the four-year technique college was also added in the year of 2000. The original title of this department was “Department of Architectural Engineering.” In 2004 it had been renamed to the title of “Department of Architecture.” Since then the four-year technique college has included two programs： Architectural Technique and Interior Design.

◆ Educational concepts
The department trains students to become practical and sustainable architectural professionals.

◆ Educational goals
A.Fundamental goals： The fist basic goal is to train students to have the capabilities of independent thinking, analyzing and creating in architectural field. The second goal is to teach students to have the skills in drawing, designing and constructing. The third goal is to educate students to cultivate the ideas of being obligated and practical in architectural fields.
B. Features of the programs
1. Program of Architectural Technique： The main goal of this program is to teach students to gain the professional trainings of architectural design, construction, structure, architectural environment and facilities, and computer aided design. The techniques of teaching these related courses focus on practical trainings and technical skills.
2. Program of Interior Design： This program is to lead students to develop the professional techniques in interior design, cultural industry, environmental design, community planning and construction. The purposes of teaching these courses mainly include practical trainings in interior design and workshops.

◆ Academic programs
Two-year technique college
Four-year technique college

◆ Features
The department features its development on environmental preservation, reuse in sustainable architecture and interior design. For the architectural trend and developing needs, all the courses are arranged mainly focusing on integrating techniques between architecture and environment. These trainings also have the purpose to cultivate students to learn the concepts of “architecture sustenance” in the fields of integrating of professional architecture and the operation of community environment. Moreover, to meet the social needs in the fields of both interior design and exterior design and to combine community construction, creative culture industries and environmental arts, the department contains two programs—Interior Design Program and Architectural Technique Program. The exhibition of the final design project for graduation is held annually.

◆ Faculty
The faculty includes six associate professors, three assistant professors and seventeen lecturers. Seven of the lecturers are prospective Ph.D. researchers. The estimation of percentage of associate professors in this department will be 60% in the near future. Tuelue of the faculty are licensed architects or technicians of structure and urban planning. Plenty of part-time teachers with professional experiences are also invited to teach in the department.

◆ Facility
The department is installed with many high-tech facilities. They include drawing studio, computer network classroom, three design studios, ladder classroom, exhibition room, material demonstration room, interior design studio, environmental control research room, lighting laboratory, darkroom, library, Architectonic & Material Workshop,Beauty & Decoration Lab.,art classroom,Energy Saving House, galley and lecture classrooms.

◆ Courses arrangement
A. Architecture Technique Program：
1. basic courses： Architectural Photography, Music Appreciation, General Fine Art, Art History, Public Art, and Communication of Visual Art.
2. advanced courses： Architectural Design and Final Architectural Design Project for Graduation.
3. Professional courses： Taiwanese Traditional Architecture, Landscape Design and Planning, Environmental Planning and Applying, Color Design and Applying of Environment, Gardening and Landscaping Facilities, Construction and Technique Engineering, Architectural Environmental Control, Architectural Structure, Computer Aided Design (CAD), Construction Management, Architectural Regulation, Design of Architectural Acoustic, and Seminar of Applied Digital Architecture.
B. Interior Design Program：
1. basic courses： Painting, Drawing, CAD, Techniques of Preservation, Popular Art, Human Scale Study, Color Study, Appreciation of Fine Art, Color of Environmental Planning and Applying, Public Art, Photography, Appreciation of Contemporary Portfolios ,and Developing History of Design and Style.
2. advanced course： Interior Design and Final Interior Project for Graduation.
3. professional courses： General Lighting Design, Interior Design and Applying, Interior Physical Environment, Interior Construction System, Interior Landscaping Design, Creative Cultural Industries, Construction of Interior Architectural Elements, House Decoration Design, Interior Materials, Patterns of Cultural Industries, Inspection of City Culture, Fashion Industry Design, Recreation Industry Space Study, Platform Space Arrangement, Creative Industry and Behavior Organization, and Commercial Space Design.

◆ Prospect
A. career planning： Some graduates can be architects, interior designers, structure technicians, urban planning technicians or architectural consultants. Others may work at architectural developing companies, construction companies, landscaping offices or architectural firms.
B. graduate schools： To gain further research, students are encouraged to study in the graduate schools of Architecture, Space Design, Interior Design, Urban Design, Architecture and City-country Study, Public Affairs, and Construction & Architectural Historic Preservation.

Graduate Institution of Architecture

History： Graduate Institution of Architecture will be founded in 2006.

Educational Objective： To incubate senior architects provided with integrated profession
In recent years, incubation of senior architects has been made effort in the country. However, rapid transfer and promotion of architectural industry generate more man-power demand than production of education institution. The graduate institution of architecture thereby provides education resource to incubate senior architects provided with integrated profession.

Graduate Program： Master's Degree

Feature：
The goal of graduate institution of architecture is to develop advanced techniques of sustainable architecture. Related research fields include sustainable building, sustainable environment, and architecture preservation and ex-tended use. The development of features will focus on both effective and applicative techniques incubation.

Faculty：
Full time faculty includes ten instructors, five assistant professors, and five associate professors. Faculties are experienced, aggressive, and devoted to the instruction of learning technique.

Facility：
Lab. ： environmental action research studio, lighting environment Lab., saving resources study house
Equipment ： solar radiation meter, insolation simulator, air velocity meter, digital weather console, duct monitor, CO2 indicator, heat radiation meter, luminance meter, sound level meter, vibration meter, precision integrating sound level meter, building acoustics measurement & analysis system, room acoustics software, notebook

Graduate Courses：
Sustainable Building Subject
Advanced Theory of Structures
Investigation & Analysis of Environment
Structural Seismic Ability Analysis
Architecture Cultural Industry Subject
Structural Retrofit Subject
High-tech Building Appliance Subject
Architecture Safety and Disaster Prevention
Building & Facility Management
High-tech Building Structure Subject
Energy Resources & Equipment of Building Environment
Green Structure Subject
Healthy Building Planning
Appliance of G.I.S.
Quantitative Evaluation of Environment
Green Building Material Subject
Maintenance & Reuse of Building Environment
Composite Materials
Post Occupancy Evaluation
Master Thesis

Prospective Aim：
Based on the global development of sustainable building, architecture preservation, and ex-tended use, current architectural industry has been transferred to an integrated manner to meet the upgrade need of architecture. Graduate-level man power, therefore, plays an important role to construct sustainable environment of architecture. The graduate institution of architecture will provide efforts on education for the promotion of architecture environment in the country.

Contact：
Department & Institute：Chang Hsu-Fu
Phone：+886-7-607-7060
Fax：+886-7-607-7113
E-mail：arch@cc.kyu.edu.tw
Website：http：//www.arch.kyu.edu.tw
Assistant：Chia-Ai Hu/Yi-Jen Chun

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