If you’re coming to the Faculty of Creative Arts for the very first time, finding your way around can be rather confusing. To help you figure your way around, we’ve created a map of the Faculty superimposing the current information on older historical floor plans drawn by the building’s very architects themselves!

But firstly, here’s a map of the campus. We are located right in the middle of the unviersity at the landmark called ‘Dewan Tunku Canselor (DTC)’. If you are trying to locate us using googlemap or waze, we recommend that you type ‘Dewan Tunku Canselor’ to find us.

Completed in 1966, the Dewan Tunku Canselor is part of building complex that designed in a style where the concrete walls and structures are not painted over and left exposed. The architectural style was popular in the 1950s-1960s. Known as 'Brutalism', the name of this architectural style originates from the French word brut, which means 'raw'. In showing the structure rather than painting over it, Brutalist architecture aims to give emphasis on materials, textures and constructions, and using this emphasis to produce expressive forms. The architect who designed the Great Hall and Experimental Theatre complex was the late Francis Bailey. He was then a business partner of Booty, Edwards & Partners, a famous architecture firm that designed many historically important architectural landmarks in Kuala Lumpur.

As you enter from the Dewan Tunku Canselor at ground level, this is often referred to as the 1st Floor of the Faculty building complex. It consists of the Dewan Tunku Canselor in front, a small meeting space called 'The Cube', and the Experimental theatre behind.

Behind the Dewan Tunku Canselor is the Experimental Theatre. Today it is home to the performing arts in the University. There are two floors within the Experimental Theatre building and they are home to the dance and drama studios, as well as three class rooms, a black box performing space and a ensemble room.

The Dewan Tunku Canselor and Experimental Theatre building are linked to another building block via a covered walkway. Here, as you walk into the building’s 1st floor, you will find the Bilik Court seminar/meeting room, Lecturers' Offices, the Piyadasa Gallery as well as other Seminar Rooms where classes are conducted.

Moving on to the level above, we call this the 2nd floor. As you can you can tell, there are two different sections highlighted here. On the office and classroom building block, most of the 2nd floor are dedicated office spaces. The Deans' office is located at the lower right corner. If you're a postgraduate student, the Postgraduate Office is the main office that handles all administrative matters related to your studies. There is a Postgraduate Study Room equipped with a number of computer workstations that postgraduate students can use. This facility is located next to the PG Office. Behind the PG Study Room, there is a Thesis Library. Finally, you will find on the same floor the Bilik Tanjung and the Bilik Lembaga. These are two Seminar Rooms where Masters and PhD Candidature Seminars (and sometimes classes and other meetings) are normally held.

As you walk down to the lowest level of this building, we have an area that was sometimes called the ‘basement’ floor, other times called the ‘ground floor’. Here, you will find the Muslim prayer room or the surau, the art teachers’ rooms, the Digital Music Lab and Music Practice Rooms. Beautifying the central courtyard is a garden with a little pond and a small little rest hut called a 'wakaf' in Malay. The garden is under the care and maintenance of Mr. Salim. Be sure to thank him for the keeping the place clean and beautiful. Underneath the Experimental Theatre are a series of rooms, two of them served as changing rooms for performers while, the other two rooms are where Taklempong and Gamelan musical instruments are stored and also taught.