Dean's Message
Welcome to the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Fine Arts.
In our ever changing world, “Design” plays a big role in forming and reforming our environment. Whatever we design does influence our environment as well as our planet which is the only available place that may currently accommodate ‘Life’ in the form and the sense that we know. Designers in all fields need to be responsive to the emerging challenges and the needs of our world today. We all need to remind ourselves that this planet is not an inheritance for the next generation; but in contrast it is what we have already borrowed from them. It is to us, to not only preserve what we have, but also to restore what we lost and sustain it in our best capacity.
With the great effort of my colleagues, in the Faculty of Architecture, Design & Fine Arts we managed to provide an environment where our students may extend and develop their skills as research based designers to become committed and responsible practitioners and scholars. In our departments (Architecture, Interior Architecture, Graphic Design and Plastic Arts) we approach “Design” as an immense opportunity to analyze, criticize and respond to contemporary local and global issues.
Diversity among our students as well as academic staff, in our faculty, drives intellectual engagement in our learning and teaching environment as well as the cultural exchange that secures a path in which any of us as a designer, may to step out of our inner circles, extract from ourselves and reflect in order to see a bigger picture in design both as professional practitioners and scholars in our field.
Prof. Dr. Shahin Keynoush
Dean