TED University Department of Architecture provides an education, which largely relies on design studios in order to equip the students with necessary professional knowledge and skills. The architectural design studios are student-oriented laboratories for education and research where direct, personal and collective experiences are integrated to support each other, as well as being the main medium where students develop their professional equipment. The content and the variety of the other field courses and the theoretical and practical knowledge that they provide assist the design process at the studios and contribute to the experience. The departmental courses vary ranging from architectural history to architectural culture; from contemporary construction technology to construction materials; and from information technologies to the study of the production of the built environment. The knowledge and experience that these courses provide for the students are supported with seminars, conferences and trips.
The communication that is promoted in between different faculties and the interactive education that is provided by TED University enables the students to actively participate in the process to conduct disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research and application, as well as acquiring technical and theoretical knowledge. The flexible structure of the program is considered as a system, which enables the students to choose departmental and non-departmental elective courses and improve themselves in fields of their own interests. An educational structure is targeted where the students are able to use technical infrastructure, facilities and knowledge of other departments and faculties as a result of the rich pool of elective courses to be formed in cooperation of different faculties and the inter-disciplinary studies, and where minor programs are widely available besides the major undergraduate programs.
The program of TED University Department of Architecture presents for the students a dynamic medium open to a dense contact with different fields of knowledge and experience that stands both in and outside of the field of architecture. The students are also encouraged to diversify and intensify their activities and experiences in fields of larger social, cultural and everyday life, in order to utilize such experiences to enrich their professional equipment. The Department of Architecture highlights the use of technical and technological infrastructural facilities and technologies of information and communication as well as their potential in producing contemporary discourse and focuses on assisting the students to develop habits on research, questioning and critical thinking and internalize them in their professional activity, besides the essential skills of design and application.