The architecture department used to be the mother of the college, and 1986 is still the largest of the four departments after its establishment.
It is also the largest department of architecture in China universities.
Since the establishment of the department, architects have always advocated rationality and pragmatism, never following the trend, nor following the trend.
Flow, in the face of architectural thoughts in different periods at home and abroad, always holds calm observation and independent thinking.
Examination, tolerance, broad-minded attitude and mind, let Tongji architecture have a kind of
Unique academic character and tradition.
At present, the department of architecture is keeping a unified pace with the whole hospital, trying to mobilize resources from all sides and cooperate with the international community.
Higher architectural education conforms to. The big idea is to start with the two main lines of culture and technology, plus
Strengthening the training of basic skills and basic theoretical literacy of modern architectural design aims at improving students' ability.
Comprehensive abilities such as questioning, judging, choosing, operating and communicating.
When you come to Tongji, you will notice that the department is forming an international building with blurred internal and external boundaries.
The architecture students benefited a lot from the big forum.
First, the Background
The Department of Architecture of Tongji University originated from the Department of Civil Engineering of Tongji University, the Department of Architecture of St. John's University, the Department of Architecture of Zhijiang University and the Department of Architecture of Hangzhou Art College. It was formed by the merger of these departments during the adjustment of national colleges and universities in 1952. From 65438 to 0986, it developed into an architecture and urban planning college composed of four departments: architecture department, urban planning department, art design department, landscape science and tourism management department.
The Department of Architecture enrolls students for the whole country, and has two undergraduate majors: architecture (five-year program) and historical building protection engineering (four-year program), the latter is a new branch of architecture. Among them, architecture is divided into architectural design and interior design. The whole department recruits about 150 undergraduates majoring in architecture and about 15 undergraduates majoring in historical building protection engineering every year (trial recruitment in 2003). The proportion of international students is about 5%.
Second, the Idea of running a school (idea)
Over the past 50 years, Tongji architectural education has been running through a main line, namely, taking the rational spirit of modern architecture as the essence, taking the eclectic academic orientation as the foundation, focusing on the equal integration of contemporary science and technology and regional culture, taking the international frontier as the guide, and taking cultivating high-quality architectural talents with broad vision, strong pragmatic style and great innovation potential as the main goal of professional training. Through the continuous efforts of several generations, Tongji architectural education has formed a unique teaching system and training characteristics that are in line with national conditions and international standards, and has always maintained its development trend. The policy of running a school can be summarized as follows:
First, always maintain and develop a pluralistic and relaxed environmental atmosphere and the academic character of all rivers;
Second, always maintain and improve the innovative spirit of seeking novelty and change and the development motivation of being determined to reform;
Third, always maintain and advocate a broad vision of the world and the direction of social training.
Third, the characteristics of running a school (quality)
1, teaching environment (conditions)
(1) international interactive joint teaching mechanism
In recent years, the architecture department has expanded the teaching mode of joint design of Chinese and foreign architecture departments from graduate students to undergraduates. The cooperative mode of interaction between Chinese and foreign teachers and students and mutual recognition of subject credits has been implemented, which has improved the internationalization level of architecture teaching. In addition, the department also made full use of the school's "flexible talent introduction" policy, and hired a group of teachers with strong learning ability from domestic departments such as the United States, Italy and Australia for a short time, which achieved good results.
(2) constantly create a foreign academic atmosphere.
For a long time, the number of lectures, forums and symposiums organized by famous architects, experts and scholars at home and abroad in colleges and universities has been on the rise, reaching an average of three times a week in 2003, which has played a powerful supplementary role in the connotation and extension of the teaching plan, greatly expanding students' horizons and improving their comprehensive quality.
(3) the interdisciplinary background of "one pole and seven branches"
Since 2003, based on the newly revised teaching plan for the lower grades of architecture department, combined with the related course series of urban planning department, landscape tourism department and art design department, the college has formed a basic teaching platform and interactive teaching mechanism spanning four departments and seven majors.
(4) Constantly improve teaching service facilities.
After several years of continuous investment and efforts, the department has reached a higher level in teaching new buildings, libraries, archives, laboratories and their supporting facilities.
2. Teachers.
Teachers of Architecture Department 105, accounting for 60% of the teachers in the hospital. There are 2 professors1person, 39 associate professors and 44 lecturers. Among them, there are doctoral supervisors 10 and 4 part-time doctoral supervisors; There are 27 tutors for master students. Among the professors, China Academy of Sciences 1 person, China Academy of Engineering 1 person. Adjunct professors include two academicians of China Academy of Engineering; Academician of French Institute of Architecture1; 3 honorary senior members of American Institute of Architects. Among the teachers, there are 33 doctors, 9 doctors and 35 masters. Since 2003, the Department of Architecture has established an open recruitment and examination system for teachers and an employment system for doctoral assistants.
Since 1996, the teaching and research organization system of architecture department has implemented the dual-track system of teaching and research section and professor research room. After the system reform in 2002, all teachers were divided into 1 1 subject group according to their teaching and research direction. In the past six years, he has published 48 teaching research papers and other research papers 106 1. He presided over 8 projects of National Natural Science Foundation, participated in key projects of National Natural Science Foundation/KLOC-0, and undertook 90 vertical scientific research projects. Obtained 1 municipal famous teacher, 2 municipal excellent courses (7 in the whole school) and 3 school-level excellent courses; Won the provincial and municipal scientific research and design achievement award 124.