HKU's Faculty of Architecture (FoA) offers a comprehensive range of bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programmes across the professional and academic research fields of the built environment, through its Department of Architecture, Department of Real Estate and Construction, Department of Urban Planning and Design, and Division of Landscape Architecture.

Scholars of different disciplines at the Faculty are also drawn together via HKUrbanLabs, a collective arm of research centres and labs investigating universal topics such as sustainable living density, resilient cities, cutting-edge architectural fabrication and material technologies, urban ecologies and human health, Chinese architectural and urban history, urban systems modelling, smart construction, affordable housing, and many others, with the goal of creating cities that are better planned, designed and governed.

Vision & Mission

HKU’s Faculty of Architecture (FoA) is at a significant point on its growth curve and in its long and illustrious history since 1950, turning a corner from its traditional focus on training local professionals, to having become a globally competitive and high-profile international centre for built environment training, education and research. 

Today, FoA is an exciting place where design-trained creatives, social scientists, engineers, humanities scholars and scientists work productively with each other, on strong globally, regionally and locally-focused educational and research agenda that are transformed into innovative, interdisciplinary programmes and projects. For its academic excellence, FoA has been rated among the world’s top 15 since 2016 in QS World University Rankings by Subject: Architecture & Built Environment, with 10 scholars being recognised by Clarivate Analytics as the top 1% worldwide by citations.