Department of Architecture Faculty of Architecture & Arts

About architecture
Understand from multiple perspectives.

In addition to safety and durability, buildings must be easy to use and provide a healthy environment.
Beauty and other things are required.
In this department, we acquire the specialized knowledge and skills to realize these goals, including planning, design,
We will learn from various perspectives, including structure, environment, and materials.

Studying both architecture and art
Thinking about the essence of architecture.

In this major, you can study arts subjects while focusing on architecture. Acquiring knowledge of the arts field is a very important clue when planning and designing architecture and interiors. In addition, the area around the Shukugawa Campus is located in an area rich in culture and art, with many art museums, modern architecture, and historical streets and buildings, so you can say that you have a learning environment close by. Let's think together about the essence and future of architecture while studying both architecture and art.Motoki ShimodaLecturer Doctor of Philosophy

Key points for studying this major

１Even if you are from a liberal arts background,
With careful guidance
Acquire knowledge and skills.

We develop the ability to think about architecture that allows people to live safely and securely. Although the field of architecture requires knowledge of science, we have created an environment where those with a liberal arts background can also steadily grow.
２Actively learning outside of school as well.
Much of the learning happens on-site
experience.

For example, during long vacations, students will participate in internships and problem-solving programs to revitalize the cities of Nishinomiya and Kyotango. They will also participate in workshops organized by the university.
３"First-class architect"
"Construction
Management Engineer
Become eligible to take the exam.

Students will learn how to draw hand-drawn blueprints, which are required for the architect examination, and how to design using 2D and 3D CAD, which is essential in the industry. By earning the required credits in this major, students will be eligible to take the exams for "first-class architect" and "construction management engineer."

Four-year learning process

First grade

You will learn basic knowledge such as the types of buildings and acquire skills such as how to draw architectural blueprints.
Second Year

This course deepens your specialized knowledge of architectural planning and structure, and improves your ability to design residential buildings.
Third grade

Students will tackle the challenge of designing public buildings such as art museums and libraries, and acquire the skills to conceive and design.
4th grade

Students will set a research theme, create an architectural work, or conduct research on architecture and compile the results in a graduation thesis.

寄り添ってくれる授業に
自分のスキルアップを感じます。

大手前大学で建築を学ぶ面白さは自由度の高さにあると思います。自分がやりたいと言ったことに先生は快く協力してくれ、指導してくださいます。例えば設計の課題で奇抜な形などを提案しても、頭ごなしに否定せず、どうしたらその形が実現できるだろうかと寄り添って教えてくれます。コンペなどの進行途中のプレゼンボードを先生に送った時には、長文で改善点を指摘していただけました。生徒だけでは補いきれない知識や経験部分を丁寧に教えていただけることで、私たちのスキルアップにも繋がります。「自由度の高さ」と「生徒に寄り添ってくれる先生」こそが、大手前大学での学びの魅力ですね。

Pick Up Classes

Building materials experiment: Taichi TanabeProfessor

Bachelor's degree (Architectural structure/materials)

Would you be surprised if I told you that "studying architecture requires destruction"? In this class, students will create their own concrete, rebar, and wooden test specimens and destroy them with a testing machine. This is to allow students to experience the knowledge of building materials they learned in the lectures, such as how much pressure the test specimens can withstand during the destruction process and what the differences in the characteristics of each material are. Another point of this class is that experimental results do not always follow theory. Differences in the method of making the test specimens or climatic conditions often lead to unexpected results, and students will develop the ability to mobilize all their knowledge to analyze the causes.

Design and Drawing Exercise II: Hiroyuki TamadaProfessor

Doctor of Philosophy

In this class, students who have been designing small spaces such as detached houses will design "places to live together" and "places where people gather" in the fall semester of their second year. Students will create according to concepts they have constructed themselves while sorting out various conditions. They will learn the design process and try and error every day to create drawings that effectively convey the design intent. It is these experiences of both success and failure that will lead to their next creation. This is a required course for architecture majors, so students who are considering obtaining an architect's license should definitely take this course. Not only will you learn the design process, but you will also be able to experience the difficulty and fun of designing a space.

By research topic

● Architectural design proposal for a complex facility
● Research on the preservation and restoration of historical architecture
● Research on architectural structural design
● Research on the landscape color of towns
● Research on the brightness of nighttime scenery
● Research on regional planning aimed at tourism town development

Students from the Faculty of Architecture and Arts in Owase City
Old folk house
For environmental conservation purposes
I replaced the paper screen.

In Professor Kawakubo's seminar at Otemae University 's Faculty of Architecture & Arts, they conduct field research to investigate the current state of vacant houses in regional cities and rural areas, and propose ways to renovate them or use them as housing for new residents to prevent them from becoming dangerous due to being abandoned.
The seminar has been working with the NPO "Owase Living Support Center" in Owase City, Mie Prefecture to tackle the problem of vacant houses, and as part of that, students replaced the papering on the sliding doors of an old house in Kuki Town called "Kaneto." "Kaneto" was once a dried fish shop, and on a site of about 1,000 square meters, it is a distinctive building that recalls the past, with a rounded "mukuri" roof at the entrance and family crests on the gutters.
The four seminar students who participated this time took on the challenge of replacing about 40 damaged shoji screens. It was a painstaking task of carefully peeling off the old shoji paper and carefully pasting new paper, but they gradually got the hang of it, and when they finally put the replaced shoji screens back in place, it felt like they had a glimpse of the atmosphere of the luxurious mansion of the past.
In the future, we plan to work on replacing the floorboards and other parts, with the aim of using the building as a student accommodation facility, etc.