Abstract
Digital technology and its use in architecture support the construction industry in transitioning to more sustainable building development. Digital technology is widely taught in architecture programs in China, but there are few consistent strategies for combining digital architectural design with traditional architectural design in architectural education. Consequently, sustainable design concepts are not included in digital architectural design courses, and thus architectural education is not concerned with sustainable development. In this paper, we focus on the teaching of digital design in architecture and investigate how digital architectural design teaching can incorporate sustainability. Data from 15 universities were qualitatively analyzed, leading to the development of four models of teaching digital architectural design. Development of the models revealed that there are three increasing levels in digital architectural design teaching and that there is a close relationship between the teaching level and the transfer of architectural knowledge. This recognition led to the development of a single comprehensive model of digital architectural design teaching that is universally applicable. This research increases our understanding of digital architectural design teaching in architecture programs and strengthens the multi-level connections between digital architectural design teaching and designing and constructing sustainable built objects.
Highlights
A sustainable economy and sustainable production can be more readily achieved with the help of information technology [1,2]
The value of qualitative analysis lies in its capacity to reveal the attributes and characteristics of the numbers of courses, course hours, and other elements of digital architectural design courses in ways that go beyond quantitative relationships, as well as the effects they have on digital architectural design teaching
The four teaching models that we developed can be developed into a comprehensive model of digital architectural design teaching
Summary
A sustainable economy and sustainable production can be more readily achieved with the help of information technology [1,2]. This is true for the construction industry. As the use of digital architectural design increases in the construction industry, architectural education faces new challenges in the adoption of computer technology and changing to digital architectural design methods and digital architectural design thinking. The inclusion of digital technology in architectural education, the need to incorporate sustainability into designs for built objects, and the associated capacity to explore new possibilities in architecture have attracted great attention from educators and researchers [8,9]
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