Architecture

Having accepted its first cohort of students in Fall 2013, Architecture is a small but steadily expanding department. While we aspire to match the academic standards of the best architectural schools across the globe and incorporate cutting-edge thinking in architectural pedagogy and practice, we also seek to install in our students, a strong sense of social engagement, environmental responsibility and professional ethics.

With a foundational belief in design as a “Critical Practice” that can generate “public good” in the world, we take issue with the increasing instrumentality and commodification of architectural knowledge, education and production. We envision our graduates to be fully aware of the social, economic, political and cultural dynamics that shape the production of the built environment and to engage with them critically and innovatively in multiple scales from single buildings and construction details to large urban interventions. We pledge to educate the next generation of competent, creative and critical design professionals who can challenge the received conventions and fashionable trends of their discipline and are as interested in defining problems as they are in solving them.

• Copy of your Passport with a personal information page on it. If you don’t have a valid international passport at the time of application, please upload a copy of your national ID.
• Copy of an official document signifying successful completion of high school diploma in many countries (if it is not in English or Turkish, it must be translated)
• Copy of an official high school transcript national or internationally recognized test results or provisional results if not available by the time of submission.
• Copy of English language proficiency test results if available.
• Copy of Equivalency Certificate of High School diploma (Denklik), to get more information, please click here.
• 1 Reference letter
• Motivation letter
  English Language Proficiency for Undergraduate Students

  The following examination results are accepted by Kadir Has University: 

  • TOEFL-IBT min. 78, 2 years valid (Kadir Has University institutional code is 7524). If taking in Turkey, the testing center has to be at the State Turkish University.
  • CAE min. C, 3 years valid
  • CPE min. C, 3 years valid
  • PTE Academic min. 60, 2 years valid