Southwest Jiaotong University is one of China's earliest Architectural Education schools. Early in the 1930s, architecture courses had been opened in civil engineering disciplines. In 1946,the Department of Architecture was formally established, Lin Bingxian, Liu Futai, Xu Zhong had presided over the older generation and participation of professors teaching architecture. Fellow South She cultivated steppe, Peng Yi-Gang Academy of Sciences and many other outstanding alumni. In order to meet the country's economic development and modernization needs, architecture Program was restored in SWJTU in 1985.And the Department of Architecture was formally resumed in 1986. In 2002,the Faculty of Architecture was established.

     More than 20 years, Southwest Jiaotong University School of Architecture in personnel training, scientific research, social services and other areas, forge ahead, steady development, and efforts to promote academic development, and actively carry out foreign exchange in the lead in the completion of a full coverage of broad areas of architecture The undergraduate system, and gradually perfecting the teaching, research, practice training model combining to form a "system, practice, vision and innovation," the professional characteristics of education, education and teaching to reach the domestic advanced level.

     College of the existing architecture, urban planning, landscape architectural design and construction of three undergraduate history and theory, architectural design and theory, urban planning and design, construction technology, science, landscape engineering and five master's degree in landscape engineering doctorate-point point and post-doctoral research stations, forming a fairly complete system of the subject structure. Undergraduate architecture, urban planning profession is the only Sichuan Province, through the National Assessment of Vocational Education of the profession, schools take the lead in the national landscape professional five colleges and universities, is one of 18 nationwide Bachelor of Architecture, Master's Degree awarded one of the units, architecture and design and its theoretical expertise is the key disciplines in Sichuan Province. Construction has been tremendous development in academic subjects at the same time, Southwest Jiaotong University School of Architecture, strive to expand horizons, open ideas, and foster open school concept, and further optimize the curriculum, innovative educational channels, flexible use of a variety of educational models, pay attention to the cultivation of practical ability of students . From 1985 to 2007, Southwest Jiaotong University School of Architecture, has grown more than a thousand graduates, in order to put the reform and opening in China since the construction of high-speed development has made positive and significant contribution.

     School of Architecture, construction and development of long-term adherence to adapt to social needs, cultivate high-quality professional and technical personnel of the mission, established the "Legislative Yuan, the teaching, academic stronger homes, expanding disciplines, coordinated development," the general principle of continuous improvement in the education system, improve the quality of teaching at the same time, highlighting the traffic building, multi-ethnic local architecture and landscape architecture teaching and research features, to make college teaching, research and actively seeks to combine the social hot spot areas, in the "Traffic Building and Planning", "Vernacular Architecture, historical architecture and landscape" , "energy-saving and green buildings" and other areas, conducted extensive practice. Over the years, assumed the National Natural Science Fund, the World Heritage declared the project and other large portrait subjects more than 30 items, chair and participate in the completion of a new railway station, Chengdu, Lhasa railway stations, a number of representative design projects, scientific research continually is rich in features become increasingly clear.

     School of Architecture, establish a "base southwest of the country, services, services the western development" concept, relying on cultural, geographical area