Learning by Doing in Architectural Education: From Urban Design to Architectural Design, Yenikapı-İnebey Case Study

Introduction to innovation in Architectural Characteristics of urban building from Bionic Design Approach

Biology has been a brilliant teacher and a precious textbook to man-made construction for thousands of years, because it allows one to learn and be inspired by nature’s remarkable and efficient structural systems. Concepts unfortunately have this in common that in general use often specifies incorrectly some phenomena. There was a turning point in each period of time which human has discovered ...

From architectural requirements to architectural design

Exploring Learning Objectives for Digital Design in Architectural Education

What are the objectives of teaching digital design in architecture? While this seems a rather primitive inquiry it in fact is loaded with misunderstanding and disagreement. This paper aims to bring accepted educational research about learning objectives into the discussion of digital design’s relationship to architecture. In particular, Bloom’s Taxonomy is introduced and referenced as a tool fo...

Analysis of Creativity in Architectural Design after the Islamic Revolution; Case Study: The Selected Award Winning Architectural Works

This research focuses on the analysis of creativity in the process of architectural design works of the Islamic revolution in Iran. The research methodology is “descriptive-analytic” in the stage of theoretical literature and “content analysis” in the operational stage. The statistical population is composed of four architectural works chosen from “Memar” award winning architectural works in 20...

Introduction to Roof garden Strategy in Architectural Design and City

The roof garden has great functioning of smoothing the shortage of land resource in the city and making use of the land resource diversity and efficiently. The modern era, following the fast development of economic and society, people have a high claim to green roof or roof garden. It is an efficient and reasonable way to exploit the open space the roof of the building. From the classic roof ...