Architecture & Design
Mission
The mission of the Faculty of Architecture and Design (FAD) is to provide quality design education and services to the community at large with special consideration to the needs and circumstances of Tripoli, Lebanon and the region. With its leading design and art program offerings, FAD has become a vital founding member among a number of other faculties of City University.
FAD’s curricula are designed with the 21st century in mind. They recognize the need for ecological sensitivity and encourage student artists and designers to consider environmental issues in creating works of cultural aesthetic benefit. FAD understands the need to think globally, to teach its students about the many cultures and ways of thinking that will give them the necessary perspective to help shape the world in which we live.
Objectives
The Faculty of Architecture and Design (FAD) aims at:
- maintaining a faculty team of outstanding designers, artists, architects and scholars
- advocating the notion of design as predicated on the marriage of science and the fine arts
- offering a learning experience underscored by self-motivation and creativity
- pursuing a process of learning grounded on a broad understanding of the cultural and historical context in which we make art and design
- promoting holistic education, one that balances the emphasis on the professional major with an equally important expectation that a student be versed in the humanities, literature and the social sciences
- addressing the local and regional job market in the choice, development and tuning of majors, curricula and individual professional courses