During the early stages of the architectural design process, students and architects seek information for inspiration, and to evaluate design ideas or similar solutions. An essential part of design education therefore involves building up a knowledge base of already built or designed buildings. Most students gather such information by visiting or researching building designs, for example throug...

Sounding Architecture, is the first collaborative teaching development between the Department of Architecture and the Department of Music at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), introduced in Fall 2016. Composed of 67 students and 6 tutors, at the start of their studies, the Year 2 students of the Bachelor of Arts (Architectural Studies) (BAAS), received a year of basic training in the foundation...

The design studio plays a central role in educating architecture students to develop skills and be creative when dealing with the complexity of ill-defined problems. One way for cope these problems, find into process, is reduce by framing problem. This can, example, established focussing on component structure as broad field, ranging from engineering theory over structural materials, products s...

Teaching architectural design is not primarily concerned with presenting a body of knowledge analytically, but rather with influencing the way students act in a design situation. Previous design cases play an important part in this process, as they provide students with sets of objectives and corresponding solution patterns. Nevertheless, one of the main problems with using precedents in the de...

Design workshops are one of the phases in studio-based learning that helps architecture students to accomplished projects studio through interactive and intense interactions between lecturers students. Therefore, this phase is carried out face-to-face method done studio. Since March 2020, for first time, courses at Architecture Program Universitas Syiah Kuala (USK) have been conducted by distan...