Fourteenth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices

Abstract

Architecture, as a dynamically developing and transforming field, has always been influenced by current developments and approaches. Accordingly, architectural education also has to keep up with the current developments to stay updated. Architectural design studios, which are a significant component of architectural education, stand out in this type of education since they combine knowledge and skills in an effective way. This study examines changes, educational policies, and perspectives in architectural education and develops a sustainable model which assumes that sustainability in architectural design studios can be achieved through a knowledge and research-based perspective. In this study, which has been designed with a conceptual perspective in mind, the data obtained from literature review were integrated to the conceptual framework by using historical method and through comparative analyses and implications. The proposed model is significant because of the following reasons: it includes projections made following the evaluation of architectural education’s historical development and the implications from knowledge and research-based educational models; and it evaluates teaching styles and learning theories in studio pedagogy together with current tendencies.