without the surrounding environment of a site, architecture loses its full meaning. in the evolutionof the design process, a site's environment should be understood as the integral factor within which a designed productor artifact is expected to perform. the environment is not of secondary priority. every building is intertwined with itscontext; context being its physical, visual and ecological...

The architectural curriculum has been based on the design studio class model which focuses on learning by doing and all processes and procedures of problem solving are transmitting trough lectures and critique sessions. The tutorial system in design studio classes is same as masterApprentice. So students learn during a communication between students and teachers and also between students. By th...

Especially in the last two decades, there has been a call for change design studio education. Today, growing body of unconventional teaching approaches is challenging traditional setting. Given central role instructor studio, each adopts an approach according to their disposition on and architecture, as well view education, some extent, they reflect course. This also enables students explore di...

The Virtual Design Studio is comprised of a team of designers from various locations for which the communication is computer-mediated. It allows participants who are geographically dispersed to interact in a design environment and collaborate on the same project without leaving their own environment. The ever-increasing frequency of distant engineering requires an efficient and common language ...

The practice of teaching and learning Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) design has to develop its own approaches that balance method and technology use with reflective and situated practice. We present our HCI design studio course that makes a combined use of constructivist pedagogies and virtual worlds aiming to aid students reflect on the use of related methods and technologies in design and t...

The design studio 'Flying Bricks' was held during the summer semester 2015. Its main objective was to redesign an existing building with the use of facing bricks algorithmically, utilizing algorithmic thinking and programming as a means for form generation. The purpose of having students express their designs in terms of code was to emphasize problem thinking over solution generation, which has...

Design studio has been the heart of architectural education since late 18 C and thus students often consider other courses as peripheral to studio. In a majority of schools, the nature of the design studio pedagogy and the way that other courses are taught appear as two systems. Courses ‘supporting studio’ have been very much a teacher-centred didactic exercise, traditionally delivered in lectu...

Studio-based pedagogy has been central to urban design programmes as it can enable future designers more effectively acquire an understanding of how cities work and critically engage with the role intervention. This paper aims explore capacities challenges learning teaching through studio by drawing on empirical research from a blended experiment during COVID-19 pandemic in UK. is part broader ...

New communication media enable new design technologies. To investigate the mutual influence of a new medium like Virtual Reality (VR) and architectural design technologies, a laboratory called ‘the design studio of the future’ is established. In due time a design system will be developed offering different design technologies in an integrated environment. Interfaces within VR will support vario...