Bachelor’s Program in Architecture

Overview

The Architecture Program at Parahyangan Catholic University (UNPAR) is one of the leading architecture education programs in Indonesia, emphasizing the integration of design sensitivity, local context understanding, and social responsibility. The curriculum is designed to equip students with critical and creative thinking skills, as well as the technical expertise needed to design spaces that are functional, aesthetic, and sustainable. The learning approach is interdisciplinary, project-based, and emphasizes an explorative process in addressing complex architectural challenges.

Beyond academic activities, students are also encouraged to actively engage in research and community service, reflecting the role of architects in responding to environmental and social challenges. Supported by experienced faculty members and comprehensive laboratory facilities—such as the Digital Architecture Laboratory, the Modeling and Simulation Laboratory, and the Fabrication Workshop—the Architecture Program at UNPAR provides a dynamic environment for students to grow and develop as professional architects who are contextual, innovative, and guided by integrity.

Specialization Program

The Bachelor of Architecture Program facilitates a variety of student specializations through six Academic Field Communities:

• Architectonic 
  
• Architectonic and Urbanism 
  
• Architectural Design 
• Culture Dimension in Architecture 
  
• Social Dimension in Architecture 
  
• Building, Environment, Science and Technology 
  

Vision and Mission

Vision

To become a humanistic academic community in the field of Architecture that is creative and innovative, capable of realizing a sustainable built environment by advancing local potential to the global level for the enhancement of human dignity.

Mission

To carry out learning activities at the undergraduate and professional levels of architecture that are student-centered and integrated with research and community service, while considering the development of knowledge, socio-economics, technology, arts, nature, and the transmission of cultural values in a critical, creative, and innovative manner—upholding the principle of Bakuning Hyang Mrih Guna Santyaya Bhakti in realizing a sustainable built environment.

Objectives

The Educational Objectives of the Bachelor of Architecture Program are as follows:

1. To produce graduates who are excellent, humanistic, and competent, as well as responsive in addressing natural–cultural values and global challenges in a critical, creative, and innovative manner, based on the integration of technological, artistic, economic, social, and cultural knowledge within a contextual framework.
2. To generate outstanding research and community service outputs that have a broad impact on the development of local potential, the preservation and advancement of cultural heritage values, the improvement of community quality of life—especially in underdeveloped regions—entrepreneurship, interdisciplinary collaboration, local wisdom, environmental sustainability, and in alignment with the directives of Ristek BRIN.
3. To serve as a national reference in the implementation of architectural design education.
4. To establish a healthy and dynamic academic culture as the foundation for partnerships with stakeholders in order to advance the application of Science, Technology, and the Arts.

Career Prospects

The graduate profiles of the 2023 curriculum of the Bachelor of Architecture Program at UNPAR are as follows:

1. Architectural DesignerPossesses fundamental professional skills with a global perspective, and is sensitive to ethical, ecological, cultural values, and local wisdom in the design and construction of the built environment.
2. Built Environment Development AssistantPossesses basic competencies in carrying out the development of the built environment, with a global outlook, and sensitivity to ethical, ecological, cultural values, and local wisdom.
3. Built Environment Research AssistantPossesses basic competencies in conducting research on the built environment, with a global outlook, and sensitivity to ethical, ecological, cultural values, and local wisdom.