The Faculty of Architecture and Design, located in the town centre, is one of the seven Faculties of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (STU) - one of the biggest Universities in Slovakia with which a number of outstanding personalities is associated. The ambition of the STU is to contribute to extending knowledge through its acquisition from science and to foster its dissemination via education as well as its application in direct co-operation with industry. In this way the university adheres to the significant heritage created by its predecessors – academicians of the Mining Academy in Banská Štiavnica, which was the first technical university established in the heart of Europe in 1762.
The current University was founded in 1937, establishment of the Department of Architecture and Building Construction in 1946 was the birth of the architectural education in Slovakia. An independent Faculty of Architecture was established in 1976, it changed its name in 2020 to Faculty of Architecture and Design. Within the short history of our school, students and staff have achieved significant results in international competitions, research projects and design for practice.
Nowadays Faculty has nine institutes – Institute of Architecture of Residential Buildings; Institute of Architecture of Public Buildings, Institute of Sustainable and Experimental Architecture; Institute of History and Theory of Architecture and Heritage Restoration; Institute of Structures in Architecture and Engineering Buildings; Institute of Interior and Exhibition Design; Institute of Urban Design and Planning; Architecture; Institute of Industrial Design; Institute of Visual Arts and Multimedia.
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FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY IN BRATISLAVA
NÁMESTIE SLOBODY 19
812 45 BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA
