The Department of Architecture has a solid reputation founded on a teaching and research, balanced between the humanities and sciences, with a strong regional bias. The Department offers professional and research postgraduate programmes in the complementary fields of architecture, interior architecture and landscape architecture. Following an ecosystemic approach, the three programmes and research focus areas that range from architectural-historical studies, to environmental and community related issues, provide the impetus for design investigations. This often results in transdisciplinary research projects with partners in industry, government and local communities.