IMPORTANCE OF THE STUDIO COURSES IN ARCHYTECTURAL EDUCATION:BASYC DESIGN STUDIOS

Abstract

Architecture is a discipline which creates healthy, livable and aesthetic spaces for the users using the opportunities of the natural environment to satisfy the needs and desires of the users within specific criterion. As well as the architecture is closely related with art and technology, it has also interaction with other design based disciplines such as city and regional planning, engineering, interior design, landscape architecture, painting and sculpture. This interaction makes architecture technical and objective with familiarity to science also makes it relative and subjective with familiarity to art. In this respect, architectural education and tools and methods used become important. As it is the case in other design based disciplines, importance of theoretical and applied studio (design) courses which bring the student design capability and creativity in architectural education is so remarkable. Studio courses in architectural education are executed in master-apprentice relations with criticizing the end product of the student in the class. The most important facts that prepare the student for the profession and design process are the basic studio courses which basic design and space concepts are given. In this article, first year education and basic design studio courses which are important in the architectural education are criticized and proposals are recommended to develop architectural education programs and make them more flexible and creative parallel to emergent conditions.