This course offers the curriculum where awareness of the issues is enhanced by various lesson experiences. In order to pull out mental fullness required for environmental design, this course offers curriculums that stimulate students'susceptibility, curiosity and inquiry mind, and deepen awareness of issues.

In the freshman and sophomore year, this course offers "debate-type lesson" where students can use their heads and deepen their understanding of nature or culture. This lesson is performed in parallel with " studio-work lesson" where students can acquire actual expression techniques. From the junior year when students are divided into some courses, this course offers "workshop-type lesson" where students can develop awareness of issues and gain design thought. This spiral-type curriculum where students repeat discovery of subjects and solution through various lesson experiences is also its specialty.

This course aims that students reach mutuality as builders by original sensitive education of a university of arts.
Architecture is one of the oldest learning for human, and is also the matrix of art. Geometry has developed for architectureand mural and sculpture has competed beauty as ornaments that also color architectures. Therefore, it is necessary for students to acquire all learning and arts in order to become mature builders. This course offers indispensable knowledge to builders, based on the original sensitive education of a university of arts. The curriculum that emphasizes on what the architecture as arts was especially at the literary viewpoint is the specialty. Architecture is also considered from each viewpoint, such as the city that is full of architectures or the house where we live in.

The sense of language is improved so as to design view of architecture.
Architecture is also an art. The original education in this university is designing view of architecture. A space is created with reading the mind of users. Therefore, first of all, it is necessary to improve the sense of language. It is not too much to say that the lifeline for builders is literature. In novels and poetries, vivid description of people's city life or home life is made and mentality is also drawn. Students do the design with this clue of the construction. Of course, it is also indispensable to learn technique required as builders and to acquire of the practical know-how. The growth from both sides of mental and technique has been encouraged for four years.

Landscape Design Course

This course nurtures workers as creative designers who bond people with natural environment.
The capability, and sensitivity of reading the message from the nature surrounding human and designing with arts and techniques, are required in order to become the landscape designers who can treat the open places of leafy parks and cities, and broad area from gardens to country environment. In this course, students learn the basics for plastic arts with which we treat the whole environment by the sophomore year. And, from thejunior year, students go back to the origin of the thoughts in the background of landscape designs, and the talented people who can express with broad view are trained.

By Kyoto's unique fieldwork, tradition and newest design thoughts and techniques are studied.
This course has two specialties. One is to study the practical design based on traditional techniques, and another is that there are chances to get the latest expression and sense of design peculiar to a university of arts. By doing fieldwork in Katsura Rikyu (Katsura Detached Palace) or Shugakuin (Shugakuin Imperial Villa) where there are cultural and artistic environment and the nature of Kyoto known since Heian period, students learn traditional techniques of Japan in practical training. Furthermore, students study the thoughts and techniques of original sensitive expression of space through modern arts. And, the writers and the educators who act in the front lines of the"@worldwide field teach at this course.

This course nurtures landscape architects as environmental artists.
Now is the time when everyone is interested in landscape. And the landscape architects who can produce the latest designfrom Kyoto are required like the architects of Milan or Florence, which are the ancient cities in Italy. This course trains people who have the power of the techniques with synthetic logical thoughts and people's feeling and design, in order to produce the landscape architects as environmental artists who put the fusion of arts, ecology and community into the view.

Area Design Course

This course raises the power to change required now and the sensitivity of artists.
Even if each park and building is excellent, it doesn't follow that the town is beautiful and livable. Calculation of entire streets and planning of the town as life space are the indispensable elements. And now, local designs need the power to change and the sensitivity with which one canfeel new possibility and attraction peculiar to various environments, such as big city, small city, residential sections, farm village and fishing village. Local designs also need intellect with which one designs each relation between nature and human, human and city, city and country. In Kyoto full of traditions and newness, this course aims to train sensitive people who design familiar living environments with global view.