Architectural Education - Science topic

The mode of designing education can be different, and evaluating good or bad may require analysis based on specific contexts. The online teaching mode can serve as a supplement to the offline mode, but it is probably impossible to replace it because the advantages and experiences of online and offline are different.

AI is a tool that skilled craftspeople will operate with great power but non-architects will not be able to attain great results without their help.

Dear Dr.Taher,

People today expect cities to be livable, cultural hubs with sustainable lifestyles. Interest in urban planning and development is growing in this setting. This curiosity has given rise to a new perspective on the goals and operations of cities. Cities should be enjoyed more as "culture havens" than as just places to live. To fulfill these desires, cities can be developed and renewed through cultural planning. Cultural planning has been a concept for more than 30 years, and many city planners are familiar with it. The goal is to involve locals in the planning process of how they want their cities to be, rather than just creating spaces where people can display art or host other cultural activities. Speaking with residents of the city or region where cultural planning will begin will help with this. In order to better understand the local cultural environment, this fosters cooperation between local residents and communities. Urban social innovation strategies, among other things. Interactions between citizens and cities are at the heart of everything. All members of a community will participate in the development of their city under this model, but the process will mostly be cultural rather than political. In order to improve living conditions, people from various political perspectives can come together. This actually occurs, and individuals have come together at the local level in their desire to better people's quality of life.

I think the purpose of product education is to help to ease life for people to get money and wealth, are under capitalist demand and without according to science and politic is not suitable and results to disarray similar to what we see in architecture in the contemporary city

Thanks for your question. Personally, I agree with what Heidi Hamed stated above. For me, vernacular architecture was alwas a source of inspiration. Hassan Fathy is an excellent example, and we can find examples all over. In times of urgent rethinking of the building sector, which has dominant impact on our natural environment, our resources, energy consumption and wast production, such "local" approaches will have a great chance to be rediscovered and transformed into an up to date solution. But it needs time and endless energy to educate young colleagues, the industry and finally society...

Thank you very much dear Montserrat, it is very complete information.

I also thank Dr. Chibuzo Ukegbu

Dear , Karim Medlej, Ihsan Jasim, Bartek Felski, Suad Mohammed Heil, Hisham Abusaada, Dmitry Sukhin, David Pecháček, Thank you very much for participating in this discussion and providing inspiring and informative answers to the above question: When do certain architectural objects become an element of art?

This discussion confirms the importance of the above-mentioned issues and the legitimacy of developing research on this subject.

Thank you very much and best regards, Have a nice day,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

International accreditation of architecture programs promoting competitiveness in professional practice

Regardless of what you are studying, you may be disappointed in those things you have to learn and you do not see the point of learning them, e.g., a classic language like greek or latin. You may realize that you perhaps chose the wrong career path or you may contract some unforeseen illness or be short of money for the studies and so on., I attach a paper about Chinese students:

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What are the main differences between NAAB: National Architectural Accreditation Board & ABET Accreditation Board For Engineering and Technology?

https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_are_the_main_differences_between_NAAB_National_Architectural_Accreditation_Board_ABET_Accreditation_Board_For_Engineering_and_Technology?isAnswerFieldFocused=true

Record short videos and send it to the students before the explanation in sufficient time.

Send a PDF file to students with necessary information before explaining in sufficient time.

Transfer the course to electronic and allow students to see it before the date of explanation.

ICTs can indeed change teaching/learning BUT it depends on how they are used. Pedagogy is key. Does pedagogy shift with ICTs? the research is unclear- with some suggesting it necessarily DOES while others suggest it does not. I am currently researching this so email me if you want to open a discussion. Just a caveat- i saw a comment earlier on here about 'learning styles'. this is a neuro myth- there is no empirical research to indicate that learning styles exist. This is a 20th century unfounded claim.

Yussur Al-Chokhdar ,

You may have a look on these references.

- Arnold, Dana, and Andrew Ballantyne. Architecture as experience: radical change in spatial practice. Routledge, 2004.

- Taylor, Anne. Linking architecture and education: sustainable design for learning environments. UNM Press, 2009.

- Abhau, Marcy. Architecture in Education: A Resource of Imaginative Ideas and Tested Activities. The Foundation for Architecture--Architecture in Education Program, One Penn Center at Suburban Station, Suite 1165, Philadelphia, PA 19103, 1992.

Thanks Peter Zeile and Aryan Shahabian for your posts.

I agree with both however it is much more difficult to work in some areas than the others when it comes to VR and more specifically in AR. I’ve recently reviewed a couple of papers in this area which although we’re good attempts missed on the research methodology 101 and that was a shame!

We have also published a couple of papers recently mostly in conferences to test the ground and believe that there definitely are new boundaries to be explores and new grounds to cover.

At SET, UoB, we have recently won some investment fund for developing AR/VR research in our school and acquired a good mix of AR/VR Technologies (HoloLens included). We are still to set up our new lab physically but good news is that we will be up and running soon.

on another account in an independent research group I lead we are also concentrating on self-commissioned research in this area.

The discussion here was what we have in our group as a regular topic and have recently decided to dedicate our next project to a couple of ideas which will hopefully come to fruition soon.

Ill keep updating the post both in here and in a project I’ve set up on RG.

Thanks again and hope we can develop some areas of joint research activities in the near future.

Poorang

I do not see meaning in looking for a correlation. What are the precise variables? There are many...With regard to psychological aspects, consider this very comprehensive and authoritative review by Robert Gifford, published in 2007. 

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I do not believe. Things are pretty clear.

Data is the rawest form of input

when you add meaning, it becomes information

when you add structure and organization to information, it becomes abstract knowledge

when you add methodology, abstract knowledge becomes applied knowledge

when you add creativity, applied knowledge becomes a design

when you execute design it becomes a precedent

precedent, when analyzed, it becomes data source. then the cycle repeats. 

Hola. Yo tuve la experiencia de realizar mi internado en el Hospital Cayetano Heredia de Essalud-Piura. En el año 2000 los internos y residentes vivíamos en la residencia del hospital. Fue una experiencia enriquecedora, desde el punto de vista de bioseguridad, podíamos regresar a los servicios fuera de nuestro turnos para profundizar en los casos clínicos, lectura minuciosa de las historias clínicas, platicar más con los pacientes y sus familias y también se consolidan los lazos de amistad con el equipo de salud, que permite consolidar el trabajo en equipo. Como debilidad, es que muchas veces nos llamaban para cubrir turnos extras cuando no llegaba el personal de planta; sobre cargando nuestro trabajo.

For developing countries important / dominant Advanced Analytics would be related to economic growth.  One of those areas is banking another one is manufacturing where Advanced Analytics can play a big role.

Thank you.

We need to consider all our senses in designing the built environment.

This is a huge question which I guess I try to answer only in part by writing whole books so it would be hard to summarise here.  However one point in response to Lilliana is worth following up. 

There is no doubt that designers including architects tend to work in a solution focussed manner.  There is no theory as in structural engineering that gets you from problem to answer.  So we use a great deal of knowledge that is episodic rather than semantic, or experiential rather than theoretical.  We often use what we call (not a good term) precedent and the gathering of this is so important as Lilliana says.  To do this today studetns are tempted to use the digital camera, but this requires no mental or cognitive processing to pass from reality to image.  A sketch does involve the brain and hand co-ordination that means cerebral experience is developed.  Even more importantly this also helps to practice sketching and drawing technique.  As Lilliana suggests we must also delay using CAD as today many students come to university to learn architecture having not studied drawing formally but are very conversant with computers.  SO the digital camera and teh computer can delay the learning of drawing and this is fatal in its effects on learning to design.

You can of course find much more detailed discussions of all these ideas and hundreds more in my latest book Design Expertise written with Kees Dorst and listed on my site here.  I am currently working on a new book as a sequel to How Designers Think that is primarily directed at the learning student and is intended to be with them from the beginning learning to design.  Previosu books were more directed at those researching design.  All detailed here and having many references that might help answer your huge question.

In blooms taxonomy the process of thinking is arranged from simple to complex. In this process, all students start at the lowest level recognizing and defining–and then move to critical thinking according to their own readiness, background knowledge, learning experience, and relative expertise. This is spiraling process of learning. Critical thinking connects past to current learning.  

Bloom’s Taxonomy is significant tool that serves as pathway and guide in the learning process.Integrating Bloom’s Taxonomy with technology into curriculum provides direction to facilitate the attainment of desired skills in different levels. Adding the use of technology facilitates transfer of learning and attainment of learning objectives.

Change is constant. Innovation happens when change takes place. Digital learning is an innovation driven by advanced knowledge and technology and lifelong learning. The question is how we re-design the thinking process and learning experiences in response constant change. The question is how we re-design the thinking process and learning experiences in architectural education in the era of digital simulation tools. 

The logical answer is 'yes'. But practitioners are concerned with the practical and resolution of problems with functional or technical responses. The academic is concerned with the abstract and the theoretical. They are both different ways of looking at the fundamental issue of architectural education. So, while the answer is perhaps yes, it is also worth considering how academic and practitioner knowledge is different and in many ways incompatible but also necessarily linked through questions of purpose and reasoning.

This can be taken together with. Your other question. This is a long standing conundrum. Many people have studied and argued about this and there is a big literature. Be careful to distinguish between education and training. Some practitioners may see what is done in universities as a production line creating skilled employees. Others may thinking it is not a training but an education preparing them for lifelong abilities. To understand this imagine turning the clock back only a couple of decades before cad came into practice. Now imagine if you can what changes will taken place over the next twenty years.

another issue here is that so e skills are simply better learns in practice and other in the university. You could try to analyse them and see if you can draw up lists. Try looking at the book design expertise that I wrote a few years ago with Kees Dorst to help map out the skills involved in design.

I think this depends on what actually you want to teach the students, for example teaching BIM in the early stages minimise its use as whole, as students in the early stage didn't yet know about construction documents and buildings simulations, so BIM capabilities will be limited architectural visualization, which is not the main capability of BIM, also this will make the students lake some of the architectural skills like sense of scale/ratios (this is according to my personal experience with students).