The Department of Architecture was established in 1990.Today, the Department of Architecture at Yazd University is one of the largest of its kind in the Iran, offering a comprehensive catalog of prominently ranked graduate and undergraduate programs in the design, planning, construction, and development professions. The Department of Architecture is part of a university community that values excellence in teaching. Its instructors work to ensure that students are well prepared by course work that includes fundamentals as well as the more innovative concepts, spawned by research and scholarly debate. It is dedicated to generating significant knowledge and insight and producing a long line of qualified aspirants for the jobs of tomorrow. The college is distinctive in that it offers a truly interdisciplinary curriculum, recognizing that no single professional track or narrow specialization can adequately prepare tomorrow's building and planning professionals.
The department is housed in Rasoulian House, one of the richest and visually distinctive traditional architecture. Faculty and administrative offices, classroom, design studios and student facilities are all located in this and surrounding historic buildings. Selecting the present location for Yazd University Department of Architecture aims to bring the architectural education a new perspective, to connect and relate new architecture to it's distant past and learn from old and rich experience in Architecture and city planning.