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The project for the Alignment of Architectural Education in East Central Scotland is a three year collaborative project funded by the Scottish Funding Council involving:
edinburgh college of art, Schools of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
University of Edinburgh, Architecture, within the School of Arts, Culture & Environment
Heriot-Watt University, School of the Built Environment
The project originated from the findings and recommendations of a joint feasibility study conducted in 2003, which investigated whether there was a basis for an Edinburgh School of Architecture. This body would incorporate the existing Schools of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at edinburgh college of art, Architecture at University of Edinburgh and course teaching in cognate subject areas at the School of the Built Environment at Heriot-Watt University.
The aim of the project is to enhance the existing teaching and research capacities of the collaborating institutions, at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. It seeks to align architectural teaching, learning and research through the proposed jointly-owned Edinburgh School of Architecture, rooted in the three main academic areas that architecture inhabits: the humanities and social science, the built environment and art and design.