The history of School of Architecture and Design can trace back to the Department of Architecture in Tangshan Engineering Faculty in the National Jiaotong University, which was established in 1946. Currently, the School of Architecture and Design confers professional Bachelor degree in Architecture, and Art Bachelor Degrees in Art Design and Digital Media Design. It also confers three first-level of Master degrees in Architecture, in Urban and Rural Planning and in Design, as well as two professional degrees in Architecture and Civil Engineering and in Industry Design Engineering. The teaching and research areas of the School cover disciplines of engineering and art, among which Architecture, Urban and Rural Planning, Landscape Architecture and Design are first-level disciplines.

Under the guidance of global and international teaching perspectives, the School of Architecture and Design actively conducts extensive international academic communications. In recent years, the School has held activities of exchanging our school staff, visiting and invitation of foreign Scholars more than 100 times. It also has actively conducted extensive international academic communications through establishing cooperations with more than ten universities in various countries and regions, such as America, Russia, France, Netherlands, Germany and South Korea. The School also has agreements for regular joint teaching with Moscow Architectural Institute, Sungkyunkwan University in Korea, University of South Australia in Australia, University of Cincinnati in America, University of Twente in Netherlands University of Valencia Spain, University of Madrid in Spain and BTH University in Sweden. Meanwhile, the school regularly sent faculty members to overseas universities for further studies and visits at many times.

Guide to the venue

Beijing Capital Airport-Beijing Jiaotong University

Taxi: Take a taxi from Beijing Capital Airport to the South Gate of Beijing Jiaotong University. Then walk 600 meters to the mechanical building. The whole journey is 32 kilometers. It takes 1 hour and costs about 100 yuan.

Subway: From Beijing Capital Airport , take Airport Express to Dongzhimen and transfer to Metro Line 2 to Xizhimen Stationand get off at Subway A, transfer to Bus No. 16 (or No. 26, Yuntong 105) and get off at Beijing Jiaotong University Bus Station, then walk 800 meters to the mechanical building. The whole journey takes about 1 hour and 30 minutes and cost 31 yuan.