The Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning, also known as The University of Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning, formerly the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, is a constituent body of the University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The school was established in 1920.
From 1880, the study of architecture at the University of Sydney was an elective of the postgraduate and undergraduate engineering degrees. In 1918 the University of Sydney Senate approved the establishment of a School of Architecture within the Faculty of Science, which was enacted in 1920 with Leslie Wilkinson as the chair and then the first dean of architecture. Of the first nine undergraduate students, five were men and four were women.[1]
Wilkinson Building
The Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning is located in the Wilkinson Building, 148 City Road, Darlington.[2] The building is named after the first dean of the school Leslie Wilkinson.
The Wilkinson Building is an amalgam of two building phases, the first a modest T-shaped building opened in 1959 and major additions completed in 1975. The first building was built from an original sketch plan of the new School of Architecture prepared by the office of Baldwinson, Booth & Peters in November 1957. Documentation drawings were prepared by Eric Andrew and construction commenced in 1958 and completed in 1959. This was the first building to be completed in the University of Sydney's expansion south across City Road into Darlington. Only six years later in 1965 the University Senate approved in principle draft plans for significant alterations and additions to the School of Architecture. Architectural firm McConnel Smith & Johnson has been credited with the initial designs, of which Dean of the School Peter Johnson was a principal. By 1967 the Senate reviewed sketch plans and a brief prepared by the Faculty of Architecture under Johnson, which were to be documented by local firm Fowell Mansfield Jarvis & Maclurcan. The final proposal was documented in 1972 with construction taking place 1973—1975.[3]
The Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning ranked 1st in Australia and 15th in the world for Architecture and Built Environment in the 2017 QS World University Rankings by Subject.[5]
In 2021 the School was ranked first in Australia, ahead of the University of Melbourne and RMIT University in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2021: Architecture & Built Environment.[6][7]
Organisation
The school contains four disciplines:
Discipline of Architecture
Discipline of Architectural Science
Discipline of Design
Discipline of Urban and Regional Planning and Policy
Sir John Sulman (1849—1934): 1887—1912 P.N. Russell lecturer in architecture, 1916—1927 Vernon lecturer in planning
Leslie WilkinsonOBE (1882—1973): 1918—1947, First Dean and Professor of Architecture at the University of Sydney, Emeritus Professor from 1947. Awarded inaugural RAIA Gold Medal in 1960 and an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters on 2 May 1970.[citation needed]
Alfred Samuel Hook (1886—1963): Lecturer from 1922, Associate Professor of Architectural Practice and Construction 1926—1945, Professor of Architectural Practice and Construction 1946—1951 and Faculty Dean 1948—1949[8] and a founder of the Australian Institute of Architects in 1929
Henry Ashworth (1907–1991): Chair of Architectural Design and History 1949, Professor of Architecture and Faculty Dean 1950—1963 and jury member of Sydney Opera House competition in 1957[9]
Emeritus Professor Henry Jacob (Jack) Cowan AO[10] (1919—2007): Professor of Architectural Science, 1953—1984 (Considered world's first), honorary degree of Doctor of Architecture was conferred at a degree conferring ceremony held on 13 June 1987.[11]
Denis WinstonCBE (1908—1980): 1949—1977, first professor of Town Planning, established Planning Research Centre in 1964, Faculty Dean 1964–1965, (Architecture Library named after him)[12]
Peter JohnsonAC (1923–2003): Professor of Architecture and head of the school of undergraduate studies between 1968–1986[citation needed]
Lloyd ReesACCMG (1895—1988): 1946—1986[13] (awarded University of Sydney Union Medal in 1988)
Swetik Korzeniewski (9 May 1946 — 6 March 2024):[20] Lecturer, tutor, Italian renaissance and baroque architecture, 1972—2001[citation needed]
Anna Rubbo, Associate Professor, 1997—2012: Lecturer and project leader of the Global Studio and co-founded the Architectural Theory Review journal with Adrian Snodgrass and edited from 1996—2011[citation needed]
Michael Tawa: Professor of Architecture, 2010—2023[citation needed]
Notable graduates
Emil Sodersten (1899—1961): attend lectures by Wilkinson, 1921
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