The Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment is an

architecture school This is a list of architecture schools at colleges and universities around the world. An architecture school (also known as a school of architecture or college of architecture), is a professional school or institution specializing in architectura ...

administered by

Robert Gordon University Robert Gordon University, commonly called RGU (), is a public university in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland. It became a university in 1992, and originated from an educational institution founded in the 18th century by Robert Gordon (philanthrop ...

. It is located on the university's campus in

Aberdeen Aberdeen ( ; ; ) is a port city in North East Scotland, and is the List of towns and cities in Scotland by population, third most populous Cities of Scotland, Scottish city. Historically, Aberdeen was within the historic county of Aberdeensh ...

, Scotland.

History

The Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment was formed by the merging of the School of Construction, Property and Surveying and the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture. The School takes its name from

Thomas Scott Sutherland Thomas Scott Sutherland, known commonly as Tommy Scott Sutherland, or simply Scott Sutherland (13 January 1899 – 13 June 1963) was an architect, city councillor in Aberdeen, and entrepreneur. In the 1950s he gifted Garthdee House to the Gray's ...

, an Aberdeen architect, who donated the school's main building and grounds in 1956.

Program

The current head of School is Professor David McClean. The School offers a Master of Architecture (MArch) programme as a first degree in architecture, and BSc Honours degrees in Surveying, Architectural Technology and Construction Design and Management. Postgraduate courses include the Graduate Diploma in Surveying and MSc courses in Advanced Architectural Studies, Construction Project Management, Property Development and Visualisation in Architecture and the Built Environment. Research at the School includes work concerning sustainable design, visualisation, collaborative and participatory design, pedagogy and project management.

Alumni

* Maxwell Hutchinson, architect and broadcaster * Willie Miller (urbanist), Willie Miller, urban planner * Knut Selberg, planner, architect, and urban designer

References

External links

*
presidentsmedals.com

bdonline.co.uk
{{Coord, 57.1184, -2.1447, type:edu_region:GB, display=title Robert Gordon University Architecture schools in Scotland 1918 establishments in Scotland Universities and colleges established in 1918