Architecture
Misikir Sisay
Department Head
misikira@du.edu.et
+2519
Mission
Architecture is the combination of Science, art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. The practice of architecture is employed to fulfill both practical and expressive requirements, and thus it serves both utilitarian and aesthetic ends. Although these two ends may be distinguished, they cannot be separated, and the relative weight given to each can vary widely. Because every society settled or nomadic has a spatial relationship to the natural world and to other societies, the structures they produce reveal much about their environment (including climate and weather), history, ceremonies, artistic sensibility, and many aspects of daily life. Therefore, Architecture is the combination of Art and Science that reshapes the artistic fact to be creating functional space for human kind.
Vision
The establishment of the Department of Architecture at Dilla University is aimed at fulfilling the professional needs both at the local and national level. The Department of Architecture at Dilla University is a program established in 2013/2014 GC(2006EC) under the College of Engineering and Technology As Architectural Design and Drafting Technology. But the program nomenclature was recognize as a department of architecture in 2014/15 GC 2007 EC.
The Department of Architecture works to fill the gap and the shortage of skilled manpower in the fields of architecture. The department contribute remarkably the growth of the building industry and urbanisation process in Ethiopia.