SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY

The history of architectural education in China, at least in the modern sense, is only 87 years long. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, architectural education embarked on a path shaped to fit the needs of the country's development. There had been more than 10 schools of architecture before the onset of the Cultural Revolution. It wasn't until the Reform and Opening Up in the 1980s that architectural education really began to blossom in China, with the number of universities with a department of architecture rising to 220 by the year 2009. With the increase in the number of schools of architecture, architectural education in China has moved towards greater standardization. China has established a comprehensive architectural education system as well as an accreditation system, consisting of programs for college students, undergraduates, postgraduates, and doctoral candidates, and having the capacity to matriculate foreign students and provide for postdoctoral..

Primary location: Beijing China