Teaching Architectural Design

Abstract

Evaluating and improving architectural training is the constant concern of university departments, instructors and students of architecture. The present article aims at improving architectural training by studying the issue and arriving at a solution whitin the framework of an analytical-comparative study. As the first step, it investigates the particularities of the first approach through historical and library-based research. In order to determine the principles of the second approach, it then examines two case studies in Iran (Tehran University and Beheshti University) in the framework of field studies and interviews, while by analytical document studies it looks at two foreign schools of architecture, and through comparison determines the shortcomings of the training system in Iran. The studies impressed the point that while having some merits, an app roach engrossed in the past is something that belongs to a gone-by age, and that because of the changed paradigm and the views that exist toward architecture in the world today, new directions would have to be considered in relation to architectural training.