Clarifying the role of the creative problem solving process on improving the competitiveness of architectural design

Introduction: As a cognitive activity, the process of creative problem solving plays a crucial role in architectural design. The design method includes the emergence, evolution, and transformation of ideas and the formation of concepts. Explaining the most important influential components of creativity and contestability of design raises these concepts in achieving each one of the approaches. This study aimed to find a significant relationship between creativity and contestability in architectural education. Therefore, the research method was applied through a multistage process. Architectural practices can bring about considerable communicability, providing a proper procedure for advancing the purposes seen in architectural design. Diversely, the alteration of problem components and their transformation to more optimal relationships are noteworthy. Thus, recognizing the stance of conceptual change in the design method entails competitiveness in the architectural sphere. Knowledge is one of the significant issues in the history of human science. Scores of theories and hypotheses have constantly been formulated and proved in the course of the evolutionary history of science. This indicates the fundamental developments in the variability of methods of thinking in human knowledge, which can result in transformation. More complicated issues have been presented to the knowledge in the contemporary era. Therefore, it is significant to reach growth and production in any field using novel methods while maintaining a futuristic viewpoint. Numerous theories have been introduced in architectural design concerning the process of designing and achieving a creative outcome.  Methodology: The research method in this study included “logical reasoning” using descriptive-analytical measures with a qualitative and quantitative approach. A group of referees evaluated these relations in the assessment and critique of architectural designs of architectural design project 6 with the free theme of a group of students. In this regard, the significant relationship between the components of these two approaches was explained using a questionnaire, and the data were analyzed using SPSS. Results: The general results of the research show a direct and meaningful two-way relationship between creativity and competitiveness of architectural design. Conclusion: Due to the interdisciplinary nature of architecture, results of studies on the advancement of control over the design process have always remained relative. An inventive method, problem-solving theory draws upon the problem‌ـ solving techniques. However, innovative architectural results can be the outcome of alteration of the problem components considering the understanding of extant challenges and contradictions in the architectural design process