FAU USP is the Faculty of Architecture, Urbanism and Design of the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil’s largest public university. It was founded in 1948, when the first independent architecture courses were being created in Brazil.
02 / AREAS OF STUDY
Programmes
Students take the five-year undergraduate degree in Architecture and Urbanism, and FAU also teaches design. Its graduate programmes offer master’s and doctoral degrees.
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Teaching approach
Teaching links architecture, the city and design, with a strong tradition of research on housing, urban planning and Brazilian modern architecture.
Campus and facilities
The faculty’s main building on the Butantã campus, designed by João Batista Vilanova Artigas, is an icon of Brazilian modernism, organised around a vast open central hall.
