Delft is a compact, historic city nestled in the Province South-Holland between Rotterdam and The Hague. Approximately 10% of its entire population of 94,000 inhabitants are students. Today, Delft revels in the title 'high-tech' city due to the abundance of technology-based institutions and organisations setting up business in the proximity of the university campus.
Founded in 1842, the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) is the oldest, largest and most comprehensive technical university in the Netherlands. It is a contemporary university of national importance and significant international standing. Its eight faculties offer several engineering MSc degree programmes, many of which are unique in the Netherlands. With a student body of more than 13,000 and almost 5,000 employees, it is an impressive establishment, renowned for its high standard and quality of innovative research and education. TU Delft enjoys an excellent international reputation in a broad array of fields such as: Nanotechnology, Life Science and Technology, Mechatronics and Microsystems, Mobility of Persons and Transport of Goods, Information and Communication Technology, Water Works, Water Management and Water Quality, Computational Science and Engineering, Next Generation Infrastuctures, Materials Science, Sustainable Energy: Extraction, Conversion and Use, Sustainable Industrial Processes, Sustainable Urban Areas and Earth: Observation, Utilization, Ecology and Engineering.
The Faculty of Architecture of Delft University of Technology aims to be a 'network faculty'. In today's world, the importance of a high-quality living environment: one which is inspiring, safe, healthy and sustainable (and not just for humanity) is clearer than ever. It is a limitless task. But as part of Delft University of Technology, the Faculty of Architecture strives to contribute actively to shaping a world of that kind. It does so by means of innovative research which informs the Faculty's educational work and has a social impact. The domain of the Faculty is the living environment, both built and unbuilt. Differing levels of scale, the whole life and utilization cycle, the sustainable outlook and a strongly developed cultural consciousness all have a place within the four main pillars of the Faculty: Urbanism, Architecture, Building Technology and Real Estate and Housing. Besides being the Faculty's four primary themes within the research portfolio of Delft University of Technology, these main pillars also inform the content of our core competence: design, design by research, construction and guidance.
Managing the Connected Cities network offers the Faculty of Architecture, Department of Urbanism of TU Delft the opportunity to expand its networks and broaden the international scope of it applied reseach into urban transformations and sustainability.
