University of Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning
The Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning is a constituent body of the University of Sydney, Australia that was established in 1920. The Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning ranked 1st in Australia and 15th in the world for "Architecture and Built Environment" in the 2017 QS World University Rankings by Subject. History. Since 1880, the study of architecture at the University of Sydney was an elective of the postgraduate and undergraduate Engineering degrees. In 1918 the University of Sydney Senate approved the establishment of a School of Architecture within  the Faculty of Science, which was enacted in 1920 with Leslie Wilkinson as the Chair and then the first Dean of Architecture. Of the first nine undergraduate students, five were men and four were women. Campus. The Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning is located in the Wilkinson Building, 148 City Road, Darlington. Organisation. The Faculty contains four disciplines: The Faculty hosts five research groups: