About

RMIT's School of Architecture and Urban Design is globally recognised for design excellence

Our disciplines

As a multidisciplinary design school, the School of Architecture and Urban Design understands design practice as an agent of cultural change in an increasingly complex and cosmopolitan world.

Architecture and Urban Design

RMIT University is globally recognised for its contribution to architecture and urban design. Our graduates are innovators who achieve at the highest levels of the architectural profession around the world.

Interior Design

RMIT offers leading programs centred on the design of interior spaces. Focused on the dynamic relations between people and the surrounding environment, this discipline explores the potential and future of interior design as a practice.

Landscape Architecture

RMIT Landscape Architecture is a world leading design program that investigates and proposes better ways of living in a complex and rapidly changing world.

A&UD focuses on ‘Built Environment’ disciplines, explicitly the design of cities and landscape through the lens of venturous practice, social change, and emergent technologies. We are industry-engaged, practice-led and privilege project-based learning, creating readiness for work and best practice industry engagement.

Our School aims to address compelling, contemporary issues like climate change, globalisation, and rapid urbanisation, in ways that help drive cultural change through design. Our students, lecturers and researchers are all encouraged to be risk-takers as they strive for positive change.

We encourage staff to be active in designing, as designers themselves or through critical engagement with designing. This approach carries through to our research, in which design activities open up interrogation, and to our courses, in which learning evolves in design studios.

School executive

Vivian Mitsogianni

Professor of Architecture / Dean

Quentin Stevens

Associate Dean (Research & Innovation)

David Coman

Manager, Planning & Resources

Roger Kemp

Associate Dean, Interior Design

Katrina Simon

Associate Professor/Associate Dean, Landscape Architecture

John Doyle

Acting Associate Dean, Architecture

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Luwaytini' by Mark Cleaver, Palawa.

aboriginal flag
torres strait flag

Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.