ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURES AND CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY

The Department of Architectural Structures and Construction Technology has been an integral part of the organizational structure of the Faculty since the establishment of the Technical Faculty of the University of Sarajevo in 1949. With the establishment of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism in 1961 and the reorganization of teaching through the introduction of the general direction department it continues to act as the Department of Architectural Structures, Installations and Buildings Construction. With the development of the curriculum during 1976/77, three departments were established – architectural-design, architectural-engineering and architectural-urban. Within the Engineering Department, a group of courses within our Department is developing in full swing with significant teaching potential and a large number of students, where staff with solid engineering knowledge were educated.

During 1993/94, the directions were eliminated and an integral five-year study of architecture was introduced. The Department of Architectural Structures and Construction Technology exists under that name and operates to this day.

Organizational changes in 2022 led to the merging of the Department of Architectural Structures and Construction Technology and the Department of Constructive Systems under the name of the Department of Architectural Structures and Construction Technology, which significantly increases in terms of staff and numbers. The Department of Architectural Structures and Construction Technologies encompasses several narrow scientific areas, and those are architectural structures, technology, construction organization and planning, installation systems, architectural physics, as well as the areas related to structural systems. The Department occupies an important place in the fundamental education of architects, with a special emphasis on modern achievements in science and profession. Through a large number of elective courses at the master’s study, students acquire specialized knowledge and skills, which is important for a graduate architectural engineer in order to work in the profession in a dynamic labour market.

Members of the Department are continuously working on modernizing the educational process and training students, future architects, for the roles of coordinators of multidisciplinary projects, which increasingly include a multitude of new areas in the process of building an architectural facility, from information technologies to climate change and related branches of science. By educating students about modern concepts in construction technology and the scope of architectural structures in materialization and architectural physics, we strive to educate professional staff capable of dealing with the challenges of modern times, but also future upcoming technologies and scientific fields relevant to research in architecture.