DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING - CAIRO UNIVERSITY
قسم الهندسة المعمارية
كلية الهندسة جامعة القاهرة

The Architectural Engineering Department is one of the oldest departments in the Faculty of Engineering. This is attributed to Mohammed Ail Pasha, founder of modern Egypt, who in 1816 established a school of engineering with architecture as one of its principal specialties. Following the foundation of the Egyptian University in 1935, the Royal School of Engineering joined the university as one of its faculties. Study of architecture was organized into five academic years and the first class of Cairo Faculty of Engineering, specialized in architecture graduated in 1936.

In the sixties, the Architecture Department was separated from the general system of the faculty which comprised an initial preparatory year. This action was in response to the recommendation of the High Council of Literature and Arts. This recommendation was based upon a belief that architectural institutes are usually separate from faculties of engineering. However in 1968, a student of architecture was required to study for a preparatory year similar to students of other departments followed by four years in the architecture department.