The Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art is Norway's oldest and largest institution for educating architects, dating back to the inauguration of NTH in 1910.
The Art Academy in Trondheim (KiT) was founded as an art school just after World War II, and became a public art academy in 1987. In 1996, KiT merged into the new NTNU, as one of five departments at the Faculty of Arcitecture and Fine Art.
More than 100 employees are affiliated with the Faculty, of which 50 permanent scientific staff. There are approximately 500 students in architecture, property development and management and urban ecological planning, 100 art students and 40 research fellows / post-docs.
Sami Rintala, architect at Rintala Eggertsson Architects and professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art, NTNU, is one of five winners of the prestigious Global Award for Sustainable Architecture 2009.
(14.07.2009) Two NTNU architecture students have taken on an unusual master’s degree design project: they’ve created and constructed an aluminium sided viewpoint and refuge with stunning views in a wild valley in coastal Norway outside of Sunndal. It's just one of several mountain design projects at the faculty.