Where are the best universities for architecture?

Can someone tell me world's best architecture universities ?

• and please tell some brief details about those universities.

• Answer:

  1)Royal Melbourne INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (RMIT), Australia RMIT focuses on exploring the emergence of innovative practices in the context of international architectural debate, promoting a constructive environment for learning through project-based research and critique.What differentiates RMIT’s Masters programme from other universities is the Urban Architecture Laboratory in which students undertake urban architectural electives in conjunction with spatial information architecture electives.The RMIT mission is “to provide a rich and challenging scholarship environment for students, academics and creative practitioners engaged in the activity of designing.”RMIT also offers short courses in 3D Max, AutoCAD, Photoshop and Rinoceros to keep architects’ computer aided design skills at the forefront. Speciality: Spatial information architecture through computer aided design Featured courses: Short courses in computer aided design Head of department: Melanie Dodd, Professor of Practice Coordinator and Senior Lecturer of design and social context 2)University of Cambridge, UK Architecture has been studied at Cambridge University since 1912, and the Faculty of Architecture is respected for pushing boundaries and diversifying to address issues within the built environment. The university’s Master of Philosophy in Engineering for Sustainable Development was launched in 2002 and now, in its seventh year, this course has been aiding architects and engineers to find the best possible sustainable solutions.Especially designed to attract topflight engineers early in their careers, the course enables professionals to engineer buildings for sustainable development through enhanced technical skills and a holistic understanding of a sustainable development.Similarly, a part-time Masters in Interdisciplinary Design, built especially for architects, is a course for design, strategy, leadership and sustainability in architecture, ensuring a multiple-voiced approach to built solutions. Speciality: Sustainable engineering and interdisciplinary design Featured course: Master of Studies, Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment Head of department: Sebastian Macmillan, Course Director of Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment. 3)Columbia University, New York, USA The Graduate School of Architecture, Preserving and Planning (GSAPP) of Columbia University has offered a number of specialised architecture programmes since it opened in 1881.All programmes stress the need for analysing and understanding historical trends in architecture in order to move forward with new ideas. The school’s preservation programme, which was America’s first, continues to train professionals in the understanding of historic architecture, artefacts and landscape.“The architect’s buildings are placed in the city like the books of a thoughtful novelist might be placed in a news stand in a railway station, embedding the possibility of a rewarding detour amongst all the routines... the architect crafts an invitation to think and act differently,” says Mark Wigley the dean of GSAPP.GSAPP offers Master of Architecture, Master of Advanced Architectural Design, Master of Architecture and Urban Design, Master of Historic Preservation, Certificate in Conservation of Historic Buildings among others. Speciality: Restoration and conservation Featured courses: Master of Science, Historic Preservation Head of Department: Mark Wigley, Dean of the School of Architecture 4)Massachusetts INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, BOSTON, USA MIT’s School of Architecture + Planning (SA+P) is recognised as a top school of architecture and design in the USA; pushing boundaries in the built environment through its graduate and postgraduate courses.There are many masters programmes available at MIT, including the Master of Architecture and the Master of Science in Architecture Studies; which includes courses Architecture and Urbanism, Building Studies, Design and Computation and the Aga Khan Programme for Islamic Architecture.The programme was established in 1978 at both MIT and Harvard University and the course is recognised as being at the forefront of urbanism in the Islamic world. The course is dedicated to the study of Islamic architecture, urbanism, visual culture and conservation. Speciality: Islamic Architecture Featured course: The Aga Khan Programme for Islamic Architecture Head of department: Nasser Rabbat, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Architecture, MIT I COULD NOT POST THE WHOLE ANSWER. PLEASE GO TO THE FOLLOWING LINK. BEST OF LUCK.