The Faculty of Architecture and Design of İstanbul Aydin University was established in May 2013  with the following 4 departments in it:

The Departments of Architecture and Interior Design were previously established and functioning within then “the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture” whose name was changed to “Faculty of Engineering” at the same time our faculty was established and those two existing departments were transferred to our faculty. The departments of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture and Industrial Design will accept their first undergraduate students in with the start of the academic year 2013-2014. The incoming students of the departments of architecture and interior design are placed by the nationally administered central examinations while the departments of while the departments of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture and Industrial Design accept students to freshmen class with a with a selection examination called “special talent examination” which is administered by Istanbul Aydin University.

The duration of the undergraduate education at IAU is 4 years consisting of 8 semesters of each 30 ECTS credits of student workload.  The university places special emphasis to courses in the fields of entrepreneurship, social responsibility and Professional ethics. It is also unique in requiring “the work placement” for 8hr/one day/week for 3 semesters. The main purpose of these work placement activities embedded/attached into the semesters is to acquaint  the  students with a relevant work environment  so that they have a chance to relate the  models of the problems introduced in an academic environment to the real life problems by facing them simultaneously. A detailed information set about each department(about the program, its aims and goals, program competences, courses, program can be reached by clicking the name of the department under the faculty and the relevant title on the menu that appears on the left side of the web page.

Upon graduation, all the disciplines within our Faculty require competences gained in not only positive sciences but in arts and  social sciences as well. The concepts of architecture and design are as old the history of human kind. They aim at build designing, building and manufacturing for the use of human kind habitats, roads, cities and regions for the use of human kind which are not only functional but also aesthetic and acceptable to the owner. In other words, social, cultural, political values and the economy are among the influential factors in such designs.

The common aim of the departments is to graduate their students who equipped with competencies in their professional fields to serve the society as self-confident individuals who are professionally capable, intellectually competent and conscious of environment.