In 1990, Mr B. F. Will was elected Dean of the Faculty. The two-year post-graduate BArch course was reformulated in 1992 into a new MArch curriculum.  This change enabled students in the master’s program to specialize in Architectural History and Theory, Architectural Management or Architectural Technology and CAAD.  Student design competitions became an integral part of the first year Master’s studio and the resultant awards won by the students in subsequent years were unprecedented.

The Master of Landscape Architecture program was implemented in 1993 with accreditation given by the Hong Kong Institute of Landscape Architects in 1995. U.K.’s Landscape Institute also recognized the degree in the same year.

In 1996, The Department of Surveying was re-named as the Department of Real Estate and Construction which centered upon the establishment of the areas of general practice surveying, building surveying and quantity surveying.  The Department now offers professionally accredited undergraduate Bachelor of Science in Surveying (with options in Economics or Finance), post-graduate Master of Science in Construction Project Management, Master of Science in Real Estate, Postgraduate Conversion Programs and Postgraduate Research degrees of MPhil and PhD.

In 1996, Professor P. S. S. Lau was elected Head of the Department of Architecture. The first group of exchange students was sent to universities in France and Switzerland in 1997. This was also the year that saw the launch of Career Discovery in Architecture, a summer program that targets secondary school students who may have an interest in architecture.  In 1999, Professor T. Kvan was elected Dean.

Between the years 1994-1999, MArch students from the Department of Architecture consistently won awards and prizes in international student architectural competitions as well as in design competitions. Students of the MLA program also won awards for their entries in an international competition. Visiting professors and architects during this period included Professors Geoffrey Broadbent, Lars Lerup, Jerzy Wojtowicz, Bruno Roberto Padovano, Arnold Korte, Tom Maver, Lin Yun, Jan Wampler, Robert Stern, Alan Plattus, Chris MacDonald, Stefan Wrona and Architects Rem Koolhaas, Jean Nouvel, Christian de Portzamparc, Ronald Altoon, Manuel Vicente and Kazuyo Sejima.