Course General Description

The department was established in 1966, when at Brest Civil Engineering Institute the Department of Urban Construction and Architecture was organized. Professors of the Department of Architecture have a unique training experience, developing the theory and methodology of teaching, confirming it with personal practice. The structure and content of the disciplines are aimed at combining humanitarian training, artistic skills and the abilities to work with computer technologies, the development of creativity, individuality, which assist students in the creative self-realization and the formation of innovative solutions. High-level specialists of the department, active cooperation with design and research organizations of Brest region, leading practicing architect-teachers are the basis that allows to train specialists with a high level of professional competence, possessing a complex artistic-compositional, scientific and technical vision of the environment capable without a long adaptation period is actively involved in the actual project process.

School General Description

This University began as a Civil Engineering Institute on April 1, 1966. The first intake was 330 full-time students and 110 evening-class students. The teaching staff numbered 32 teachers. In 1969 the number of students reached 2700, namely 1960 full-time students, 480 evening-class students, 260 part-time students. The teaching staff increased till 186 teachers. In 1989 the institute was reorganized into Polytechnic Institute. Since then Mechanical Engineering and Electronics Department and Economical Department were opened, new specialties appeared; the spectrum of research work has expanded. Now it is the largest technical institution of higher learning in the western region of Belarus. Since its foundation more than 18000 specialists have graduated from this Institution, which was incorporated as a State Technical University in 2000.