It is increasingly important for researchers and educators to find effective ways stimulate students’ creativity. In design education, the specificity of design, defined as open-ended problems ill-defined problems, provides a special opportunity improve Nevertheless, education itself encounters other issues concerning creativity, such not specifying in detail what creative pedagogy should be. T...

In the developing world, skills in innovation and creative design have emerged as key attributes for graduating designers. Creativity is essential if we want to generate new solutions to the considerable and complex problems in architecture. Metaphor is frequently expressed as a key tool for enhancing creative design, yet little empirical research has been performed on how novice designers can ...

School in Architecture. He has published widely on research theory in the creative and performing arts and has extensive experience as a doctoral supervisor and examiner in the UK, Sweden and Brazil. She has degrees and experience as practitioner and researcher in architecture, urban planning and industrial design.

The intervention of urban design in Irans architectural structures has been for many years a challenging issue for architects and urban designers over their professional realm. The preservation of architectural structures in Iran has always resorted to extremes. This control and direction has sometimes resulted in exclusion of architecture position and has sometimes, once faced with lack of pro...

Handwriting in computer environments satisfies many requirements that are necessary to support creative activities, as it is easy to use, natural, flexible, and informal. This article proposes a tool to support creative activities using handwriting. The tool has the following features: (1) It is targeted for use in processing diagrams with logical structures. (2) It provides a handwriting input...

In this article I examine the architecture and architectural thinking of Finnish Academician Reima Pietilä (1923–93) in relation to his design methodology. was an architect with original, creative, artistic personality, who set out early career develop form language, theory modern architecture, moving it towards organic expressionism. nature mysticism a source inspiration for him, ‘nature archi...