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School of Design
& Environment

SDE50 – Creating a Well & Green community together
Over the past ve decades, the NUS School of Design and Environment (SDE) has
contributed to making Singapore into “An Endearing Home and a Distinctive Global
City”.
Comprising of three departments − Architecture, Building, Real Estate, and one
division − Industrial Design, SDE remains the only faculty in a Singapore university
that provides a comprehensive multi-disciplinary o ering of teaching and research
in architecture, building, real estate and industrial design.
Working with policy makers and industry partners to advance the frontiers of
creativity, innovation and research, we have nurtured many generations of profes-
sionals. Together, we helped build our nation in the initial years of independence,
shaped our cityscape into a modern-day metropolis of smart infrastructure and
sustainable developments, and transformed Singapore into one of the world’s most
liveable cities.
This year, SDE celebrates its 50th anniversary and is on a cusp of a new phase in
history. Adopting the Well and Green thinking in our pedagogy and research that
emphasises human-centric design within a sustainable natural and built environ-
ment, SDE is driven by a quest to champion urban resilience for the community and
world.

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