The Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and The Built Environment

The Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment, Robert Gordon University, is located at the university's Garthdee campus in Aberdeen, Scotland.

The Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and the Built Environment recently celebrated its 50th anniversary on the Garthdee site.

The current head of School is Professor David McClean. The School offers a Master of Architecture (MArch) programme as a first degree in architecture, and BSc Honours degrees in Surveying, Architectural Technology and Construction Design and Management. Postgraduate courses include the Graduate Diploma in Surveying and MSc courses in Advanced Architectural Studies, Construction Project Management, Property Development and Visualisation in Architecture and the Built Environment.

The School undertakes world leading research, including a PhD programme. Research at the School includes work concerning sustainable design, visualisation, collaborative and participatory design, pedagogy and project management. Staff from be school regularly contribute to leading academic journals and conferences, and much of the research activity is undertaken in association with public and private sector partners from across Europe. In the UK Research Excellence Framework 2014, over 60% of research in the School was judged to be at World Leading and International level.

As the most northerly school of architecture in the UK, the School works closely with the North East of Scotland community but maintains links with both the rest of the UK and Europe. The student lecture society, appropriately named 57 10 (after the latitude of Aberdeen), hosts many luminaries from the architecture profession.

The RGU campus is located in a parkland setting on the north bank of the River Dee, in the south-west suburbs of Aberdeen, with a number of campus buildings designed by prominent architectural firms such as BDP (Sir Ian Wood building, formerly known as Riverside East) and Norman Foster's Foster + Partners (Business School building). The School is based in the Scott Sutherland Building, which is a modern building constructed in phases between the 1950s and early 1970s. The School also uses part of the 19th century Garthdee House (as originally donated by Tom Scott Sutherland), which is physically connected to the Scott Sutherland Building. However, new accommodation for the School is due to open in September 2015 as an extension to the university's Sir Ian Wood building.

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