TUT Architecture & Industrial Design

There are many places to study design. Here's why the Department of Achitecture and Industrial Design at TUT is different.

✅ Nationally accredited — SACAP and CAA recognised qualifications
✅ Real facilities — 3D printing labs, CNC machines, laser cutters, wood and metal shops
✅ Studio culture — a close-knit environment where collaboration beats competition
✅ Mentorship-driven — faculty who are practitioners, not just lecturers
✅ African context — design education rooted in solving South African challenges
✅ Global outlook — graduate work recognised on international platforms, including Milan's SaloneSatellite

We don't just teach design. We build designers.

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Every product you pick up, sit in, or interact with 👉️ someone designed it. That someone could be you.

Industrial Design is the discipline at the intersection of creativity, engineering, and human experience. Industrial designers create finished products that are beautiful, functional, safe, and manufacturable at the right price for the right market.

At TUT, our Advanced Diploma in Industrial Design prepares you for an international profession with a local edge. You'll work with real materials, real tools, and real briefs, from consumer products to furniture, medical devices to transportation design.

If you think creatively, solve problems logically, and love to make things 👉️ this is your space.

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This week, our students left the studio and stepped into the real world.

A site visit to Thuto Bohlale Secondary School, in Mamelodi brought our Masters Architecture students face to face with the community they are designing for. Teachers. Learners. Spaces that need solutions. A school in the middle of a construction project, growing, but still in need.
This is the moment the brief becomes human.

No amount of studio work prepares you for standing in a classroom of forty-five learners with a single teacher and understanding — viscerally what the design challenge actually is. What it feels like. What it demands of you.

Our students walked the grounds, engaged with staff and learners, and left with something no lecture can provide: a genuine understanding of the people their work will serve.

The co-design process is live. The community has been heard. And the work ahead is more meaningful for it.

Architecture is more than buildings. It's the art and science of designing spaces that shape how people live, work, rest, and move through the world.

At TUT, our Architecture programme takes you from hand-drawn sketches to large-scale spatial thinking, with an emphasis on the South African built environment and the communities that depend on it.

You'll work in dedicated studio spaces, tackle real briefs, and develop the skills to design buildings that matter.

If you've ever looked at a building and imagined your mark on it 👉️ Architecture might be your calling.

📍 SACAP accredited | B.Arch programme | Pretoria

Your future starts here. Applications for 2027 are now open at the TUT Department of Architecture and Industrial Design.

Whether you're drawn to the built environment or the world of product design, we offer two powerful pathways: Architecture and Industrial Design: both grounded in hands-on making, studio culture, and real-world problem solving.

Here's how to apply: → Meet the minimum APS requirements → Complete your online application at tut.ac.za → Submit your portfolio of evidence

Our doors and our studios are open.

Last week, Enrico Deysel represented TUT’s Department of Architecture & Industrial Design at the National Corobrick Student Awards and walked away with a national commendation as runner up for the National Prize. 🏆

His thesis project, Conserving the Succulent Karoo Region, proposes an ecological research centre for cultivation and seed banking within one of only two arid biodiversity hotspots on the planet. The design integrates passive climate strategies, locally sourced stone, and organic roof forms, architecture that doesn't impose on the landscape, but grows from it.

This is what designing with purpose looks like.
Congratulations, Enrico. The studio is proud of you. 🌿

The 2024 third year group reignited our collaborative efforts with Eswatini college of technology and shared in the beauty of the kingdom. Ministry of Education and Training Eswatini Faculty TALKS. Building & Civil Engineering-ECOT Eswatini College of Technology

The 2024 third year group reignited our collaborative efforts with Eswatini college of technology and shared in the beauty of the kingdom.

The Eswatini College of Technology is honored to have Tshwane University of Technology's Department of Architecture and Industrial Design [ TUT_Arch] visit for a brief student collaboration. This exchange is aimed at enhancing cross-pollination of ideas and school-of-thought.

Over and above, a brief special Guest-Lecture has been prepared, through the Faculty-Talks, for students and the public.

This informative Public-Lecture can be attended live and virtually as dated.

Be sure to attend: Don't Miss Out.
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