The Department of Architecture and Urban Culture is for students of both architecture and arts and urban culture. Through practical education in the humanities and sciences, students can study both fields in a cross-disciplinary way, while obtaining advanced knowledge on their own fields.

In this field, in addition to advanced professional knowledge of architecture including history, planning, structural engineering, and the environment, students obtain a broader perspective on society and a more comprehensive understanding of architecture and cities. Through practical yet challenging studio work on existing architecture and cities, as well as on virtual subjects, students in this field aim to develop practical leadership skills in discovering, analyzing, and solving various problems.

Students in this field take a theoretical and historical approach to study, while being engaged in practices, through cross-disciplinary research on a spectrum of culture, including film, contemporary art, literature, dance, theater, animation, pop culture including 2.5-dimensional culture, sound culture studies, psychoanalysis, gender and sexuality studies, and the philosophy of biospheres and machanospheres.

Students engage in practical studio courses such as Spatial Culture Design, Creation of Critical Media, Sound Culture Studies Visual and Physical Expressions along with theoretical courses, and create their own work and activities, make presentations on and off campus, write articles, and compile them in portfolios. Based in the Y-GSC Studio, students explore arts and cultures in the 21st century.

The Yokohama Graduate School of Architecture develops next-generation architects who will solve urban problems in the future. The school offers the highest level of architectural design education in Japan through small-group studios set up in a large studio space inside a converted power plant. The world-renowned professor-architects provide practical education about architectural and urban design. Students obtain their master’s degrees by submitting their design portfolios, instead of a master’s theses. The school admits 18 new students every year, with a total enrollment of 36.

Students in this department study civil engineering as well as humanities and social sciences from a global perspective. Those who plan to earn a master’s degree in engineering focus on civil engineering, while those who plan to earn a master’s degree in arts humanities and social sciences focus on humanities and social sciences. However, students can take courses in both fields and interact. The department’s diversified curriculum covers both humanities and sciences.

In this field, students aim to envision and implement the city of the future, by analyzing a variety of urban phenomena in local communities in Japan and overseas through research based on humanities and social sciences such as anthropology, sociology, development studies, political science, history, cultural history, philosophy, literature, and gender studies.

Students in this field study and conduct research on the technology, design, policy making and management of the infrastructure that supports our everyday lives, applying their knowledge and understanding of civil engineering. The program aims to foster engineers and planners who will work internationally to solve a variety of urban problems faced by both the local and the global communities, by utilizing tangible and intangible methods.

This school aims to foster civil engineering professionals who will address problems in cities in emerging and developing nations, and provides practical education based on the studio system. The school admits international students including master’s students who have received MEXT Scholarships. For this reason, all courses, including lectures, studio work, and master thesis writing, are conducted in English.

As a program for international students, the school admits students who have received the World Bank Graduate Scholarship and offers English-language classes about international cooperation for development. The program focuses on providing practical knowledge on infrastructure management for professionals from developing countries.

This department fosters professionals who will apply practical skills to envision, design, and establish spatial, societal, and cultural infrastructure with academic expertise about technologies, society, culture and history, as well as professionals who continuously and practically lead and support the intangible aspects of life in cities and local communities, such as academic research, cultural activities and social activities.

The Doctoral degree is awarded either in Engineering or Arts.