TU Delft Faculty of Architecture & the Built Environment - Julianalaan 134

Research and education place with both excellent external and internal architectural style and decoration

Enchanting. And don't forget to enjoy the awesome beers at the bow pub Tuesday and Thursday

“You need to give creative people ample space and at the same time put them on a long lead. Managing creativity is one of the most difficult things. It implies a willingness to bend the rules, make mistakes, accept unfinished ideas and to live with ambiguity and chaos.” –Manfred Kets de Vries

Beautiful building with great facilities

First of all this faculty is "vreselijk" as employer, their P&O services are so bellow any level, that they will make a mess out of all Employment Law, and would than NOT co-operate to fix their mistakes. If you directly approach the person/s who have made mistake/s in the administrative process, they will make your problem/s even worse, and bigger, instead of correcting them. So, If u dont want impossible situations where all kinds of "mistakes" gradually accumulate over time to in the end completely crash you, do not sign and/or deal with dutch. ------------------------ WORK ENVIRONMENT: 1. NO introduction-programme for the new employees, which in an enormous faculty as this one and an even more enormous TU here is an un-necessary complication; especially for those who encounter the organisation for the first time. 2. NO housing-assistance for the foreign employees- neither formal, nor informal. For a country with such problematic housing market as the netherlands this alone can already be killing for u as a foreigner(employee). 3. No measurable criteria (facts) by evaluating the employee (on an yearly basis). Thats convenient if you like to send away an excellent employee, in case you are yourself a poor and/or mis-functioning general manager (here: professor). RESEARCH: 4. The academic-staff, who are obliged to posses or obtain a PhD in order to keep their work-contract, too often produce doctorates that have little to no-thing to do with their previously obtained BSc, MSc degrees. This is against the academic regulations. There has been at least 1 case by BK-TUD where a person without a Phd-degree, without previous experience as university staff, and without an exceptional professional practice/reputation too; has been appointed a "full-professor" for 10 years. Which is a disaster in every way and not only a juridical contradiction. EXAMPLE: Such has been the case of a certain e.a.j.luiten (mla-ede), who has too generously been provided a "temporised full professorship" for 10 years long n.b. on a subject which the person could not possibly master, while lacking the obligatory academic qualifications for the position "full professor" too. Truly amazing that! EDUCATION (BK): 5. About five-hundred architecture students per year for the TUD-BK, without entrance exams n.b., automatically means lesser quality. 6. An overly concern for and practice of "analysis" processes in the education, vs and for the cost of the process of "creation". 7. Poor curriculum and NO post-graduate facility in the area of "computer science" for architecture and building engineering. 8. Insufficient "building engineering" in the MArch-curriculum, while this is arguably the most important discipline for future architects. 9. And back-to-5: What do you do with that many arch.student graduates, when there is a similar faculty and TU/e, many arch.colleges(hbo) plus the art academies for interior designers in that country, and the inter-national arch.market and supply too. GENERAL NOTE: While most dutch universities are state-financed; they charge a relatively high tuition-fee for providing a mass and NOT too high in quality education. Most dutch universities are situated in villages and small provincial towns, which is a further disadvantage for both students and staff too. At this same time the state-universities in the following countries DO offer fee education of at least the same quality, or higher: Bulgaria (here with quotum on academic/artistic-merit basis), Danmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Norway. This in combination with the un-accessible housing market in this country where too low quality housing is offered for too high prices (again!), the awful climate, the daily traffic congestions (for hours), pollution, no-nature; and the disgusting attitude of the local society, government and business towards people and persons of foreign descent makes the country NOT to recommend for studying, working and/or living there. Especially not if you are not what the dutch call "a natural born dutch" (autochtoon/nl).

A nice harmony between old and new building. Clean spaces. Good environment. There's a bicycle parking right in front of the building.

One of the most lively faculties of the university. Loved studying here, great designer atmosphere. There will always be small complaints, but none that diminish the overall quality and feeling of the building. The facility management might be a bit more lenient, but keeping up appearances does come at the cost of some freedom.

Building with the atmosphere of architecture. Sufficient places for studying and a quiet library on the first floor. Canteen available with fresh foods. The creativity is felt throughout the building. Toilets aren't always as clean as expected and especially during exams it can be extremely busy in all study rooms. Modern technologies available for architecture students for rendering and VR. On the first floor the collection of famous chair is freely accessible from 9-17.