Department of Architecture

As the world market has been integrated into the World Market World Trade Organization (WTO) system, experts being exchanged internationally is now required within procedures to ensure optimal qualification. The exchange of architectural design services internationally is essential in the universal tide of globalization. Discussion about the qualification of architects as experts is ongoing in western society, and each country has been cultivating architects with special skills and qualifications, by establishing accreditation systems. The WTO delegated the criteria of establishing multilateral negotiations within architecture and design services to the International Union of Architects, and the International Union of Architects adopted the UIA Accord on Recommended International Standards of Professionalism in Architectural Practice by the Beijing General Assembly in June 1999. In accordance with the UIA/UNESCO Charter for Architectural Education, the UIA advocate that education for architects (apart from practical experience/training/internship) be a duration of no less than 5 years, delivered on a full-time basis in an accredited/validated/recognized architectural program in an accredited/validated/recognized university, while allowing variety in their pedagogic approach and in their responses to local contexts, and flexibility for equivalency. Graduates of architecture are required to have completed at least 2 years of acceptable experience/training/internship prior to registration/licensing/certification to practice as an architect (but with the objective of working towards 3 years) while allowing flexibility for equivalency.
Korea has been a WTO member since 1 January 1995. This means that Korea is now a member of an integrated world market. Therefore accreditation of architectural education for international standards became essential for Korean architects to work in the international market. However, since architecture has many different traditions and laws varying by country, mutual recognition between the related countries, for the free trade of architectural experts is required. This leads architectural education to have accreditation programs and international standards of architectural qualification in each country. As an agency that is responsible for the accreditation of Korean Architectural Education, Korea Architectural Accrediting Board (KAAB) was established on December 31, 2004.

Student Performance assessment Criteria(SPC) for Accreditation of Architectural Education are achievement standards that students must acquire through architectural programs, and it is fundamental for meeting the educational contents of the Accreditation of Architectural Education. This SPC consists of 41 rules from 5 categories; communication, cultural context, design, technology, and practice.
Regular and special education courses in the architecture program in School of Architecture, Pusan National University include these items and consist of sophisticated programs. Students who major architecture must meet these 41 criteria items to earn credits.

1. Architectural ideas should be expressed literally and verbally in accordance with situation and client. Appropriate use of foreign language is allowed when necessary.
2. Architectural books and reports should be written concisely and clearly. A proper presentation should be given.
3. Methodologies, and leadership should be recognized to aid cooperation with the various types of people within architectural procedures.
4. Architectural ideas can be expressed in the form of pictures.
5. Media such as photographic models can be used in the design process.
6. Information and communication technology such as the use of computers is allowed to highlight images in the design process.

7. The relationship between architecture, science, and art must be understood.
8. The world history of architecture and the vast variety of tradition must be understood.
9. Philosophies unique to differing nations and regional ares as well as differences in culture must be understood.
10. Correlations and affects that architecture has had historically, socially, regionally, and politically, must be understood synchronically and diachronically.
11. Different types of precedents can be used in architectural discussion from a critical standpoint and can be applied to building design, complex planning and city design.
12. The mutual influences on customs, environment and values that an individual and a social group have in different cultures, must be understood.
13. Theory and methods that correlate the physical environment and human behavior.
14. Theories which deal with environmental context, building principle, and environment renewability should be applied as sustainable architecture.

15. Two-dimensional and three-dimensional forms that consist of the fundamentals of architecture and city planning must be understood as well as the basic principles and systems of spatial configuration. These can be interpreted architecturally.
16. A wide range of information regarding design must be collected and analysed. Then it can be created as a synthesized program.
17. Natural, environmental, and climatic context and the limitations of a specific site regarding sustainable development must be interpreted appropriately and integrated in designs.
18. Design concept should be extracted from the various cultural and historical contexts given in the project. Then, it can be lead to design by systematic analysis and evaluation.
19. Design must be done with consideration to the various requirements of building users such as the aged or the disabled.
20. After evaluating and selecting the building system and building methods, it must be integrated into the design appropriately.
21. The whole procedure from the primary design phase to completion must be shown systematically. Technically precise explanation for the each suggestive design phase must be given when creating architectural books and reports.
22. Such matters; for example expansion, renovation, maintenance to change the original environment must be reviewed thoroughly and designed.
23. Elements that are necessary in every design phase should be considered for design.
24. Different roles should be recognized to maximize each individual's ability. When working as part of a team or in similar situations, cooperation must be dealt with responsibly.
25. Based on the principles of life safety and disaster prevention, the selection of a proper disaster prevention system for each building both inside and outside, must be applied to the design.

26. Basic theory based on structure and mechanical principles should be understood.
27. Characteristics and application methods of various building structure systems must be understood.
28. Regional methods to control the environment must be understood.
29. Fundamental principles and performance assessment methods of environmental system such as lighting, sounding, and energy management, must be understood.
30. The fundamental principles of designing building envelops must be understood.
31. Building systems including mechanics, electricity, communication, disaster prevention are selected and the principles to apply in design must be understood.
32. The fundamental principles of construction management must be recognized.
33. Principles regarding producing and using construction materials, building members, and assemblies, as well as customs, specification, application, limitations must be understood.
34. The renewability of construction material, building disposal and hazard and regulatory approaches must be understood.
35. Construction management and procedure must be fully understood to deal with the physical, human and technical resources that can be acquired in the region.