ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT
Department of Architecture and Interior Design is a unique department in the College of Engineering. Its fields of studies: architecture, Interior Design, and landscape architecture are creative, artistic, socially conscious, design-based disciplines and are situated between Arts and Engineering.
Our graduates learn to think, imagine and create exciting but purposeful built-environments from cities to room interiors and study philosophies, histories, social sciences, construction engineering as well as management and professional practice. They enjoy promising job prospects as architects and interior designers as well as project managers and property developers.
Architecture and Interior Design are some of the best professions in the world for those who enjoy creativity, imagination and unlimited complexity and challenge to innovate. In architecture and Interior Design, clients pay handsomely for dreaming on their behalf. The department is well equipped with design studios, a material lab, a model workshop and lecture rooms that enable students to progressively grasp the complexity of the arts of architecture and interior Design and excel in becoming designers of outstanding prowess.
With qualifications in Architecture and Interior Design, graduates can work either in architectural firms, or in government agencies dealing with built-environments or set up their own practices after appropriate work experiences. Our department offers one of the best Architectural Education in the region.
OUR PROGRAMS
Bachelor of Landscape Architecture – Suspended Temporarily
- Associate Diploma in Architecture   (PDF، 0.3 MB، 7 Pages).
- Associate Diploma in Landscape Architecture   (PDF، 0.3 MB، 7 Pages).
- Associate Diploma in Interior Design   (PDF، 0.3 MB، 7 Pages).
OUR FACULTY
As of 2021, there are 43 qualified and well-experienced faculty members. 17 of the faculty are PhD holders and 26 MSc holders who handle the lecture classes for the courses. The PhD holders include 3 associate professors, and 14 assistant professors. In addition, the MSc holders include two senior lecturer, eight lecturer, and eleven research assistants, in which four are currently on scholarship. All ranked faculty members have obtained their degrees in different Architecture, Interior design, and Landscape Architecture related fields from reputable academic institutions globally such as Australia, Malaysia, United Kingdom, and the United States of America.
In addition to their academic load, the faculty conduct research that is at a regional, and global level, participate in the administrative duties as well as community services. The faculty are involved in many students’ extracurricular activities such as supervising competitions, organizing workshop for students as well as mentoring the students’ educational progress. Senior faculty teach specialized courses at a master’s level for the department postgraduate courses. All professorial ranked faculty supervise senior (capstone) projects in the undergraduate program, and several supervise master’s students.
PROGRAM ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
In addition to meeting the general University of Bahrain admission requirements, applicants to
programs of Interior Design, Architecture and Landscape Architecture should undertake an aptitude test to ascertain an applicant’s ‘capability’ for creativity and design, which represented the ability to communicate visually, and skills gained in that process.
Sets of ‘traits’ will be assessed at the ‘Aptitude Test’, within two parts as follows.
PART 1: Assessment of Verbal Traits.
PART 2: Assessment of Visual Traits.
For more information please download the file.   (PDF، 0.6 MB، 8 Pages).
