Effective Constructivism for the Arch-Design Studio
محورهای موضوعی : Urban Designکلید واژه: Effective constructivism, Arch-Design Studio, Collaboration, integration, Adaptability, Motivation, Teaching and learning,
چکیده مقاله :
Aim of this paper is to search and find ways and methods of constructivism teaching and learning ideas inteaching the architectural design studio. The objective is to extract all the positive things constructivism has to offer the architecturaldesign studio for efficient teaching and effective learning. Although there are similarities in the curricula of training architects all overthe world, but educators go about it in their own convenient and suitable ways and styles. And this is leading to inadequacy in thestandards of teaching the arch-design studios in the contemporary world. The topic has become very relevant and timely asarch-educators and other stakeholders are of the opinion that something has to be done to improve the ways and methods of trainingarchitects, especially the teaching of the arch-design studio. Through exploration of critical analytical review of literatures and interviews,this paper finds ways and methods of constructivism in teaching the arch-design studio. These ways and methods are criticallyexplored through the research themes of collaboration, integration, adaptability and motivation. By teaching and learning withconstructivism ideas in the arch-design studio the students would be grounded in designing with creativity ideas and therefore we canhave professionals that design and build creatively, functionally, satisfactorily and safely. It means we can have real buildings andplaces that satisfy our clients, the society and in harmony with the environment.
