Dear Students,
The answer to a question “What is architecture?” is commonly that it is the intersection point of engineering and art. As a matter of fact, architecture being much more than this simple definition is the life itself. Though we, more often than not, are unaware of it architecture is a part of life from housing to security, from education to art, from village to city. For this reason, success in architecture will mean conception in resolving problems in all fields ranging from education to economy, from ecology to housing. Today, modern society is facing with multitudinous issues such as housing, transportation, recreation, substructure etc. In spite of developments in science and technology, problems in metropoles such as accommodation, transport, substructure and recreation etc. could be resolved. In reaching a resolution of these issues confronted at both national and global levels, architecture as a profession will undoubtedly contribute a lot.
Globally, buildings constructed with traditional methods or constructed disregarding legislations straight-forwardly threaten social security, failing when confronted with natural disasters such as earthquake, avalanche, flood and landslide. To crown it all, when unlicensed constructions built as a result of uncoordinated migration to the cities of developed countries are added to this feature, these cities encounter a great threat. Irregular urban development faced by developing countries increases loss of life and property as well. Successful management of urbanization processes is merely possible with the implementation of the rules of urban science within the framework of city and regional planning professional discipline, in a wide range from the planning of cities in macro- scale to the planning of individual buildings in micro-scale.
Architecture does not only approach mankind’s problem of housing, now and in the future, from a purely technical perspective. It, while shaping the space, also takes sociological, ecological, and psychological factors in accordance with human needs into account in physical design. In other words, architecture follows city and regional planning processes while constructing the space; landscape architecture designs open and green spaces taking people’s psychological needs into consideration mathematicising and remaining respectful to nature; and interior architecture, on the other hand, creates liveable interior spaces with high visual efficiency. Thus, the space becomes an important field of occupation that enlivens social life and addresses the spiritual world of people with the joint contribution of architectural disciplines.
The cooperation of professional disciplines related to architecture and an accumulation of knowledge is not only a requirement but a must for our cities to acquire artistic and aesthetic qualities. It is certain that urban transformations devoid of knowledge accumulation will also be deprive of aesthetic and artistic qualities of space. AS a matter of fact, it could be said that such lacking designs would not be able to go beyond being copies of the existing or not be able to contribute cities with new things, and not be able to resolve the problems. I wholeheartedly believe that our country would reach peak in space planning thanks to the innovative approaches that you acquire in our faculty. This success will rise on the shoulders of our students who research, question, conduct their profession within the boundaries of ethics, create a visible awareness in the social field with their exemplary behaviour.
In this context, we, with all our professional disciplines we host in our constitution, as the Faculty of Architecture of Niğde Ömer Halisdemir University, which keeps the education curriculum constantly up-to-date within the framework of changing and developing dynamics with its classrooms, design workshops, laboratories and closely follows the developments in the world, feel ready to train you young people who have chosen their profession.
With my warm regards.