ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION RELATION TO ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE

Authors

Ahmed El Wafa, Teaching Assistant, Architectural Engineering & Environmental Design Department, Faculty of Engineering & Technology, Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport, EgyptFollow
Fadwa Khedr, Teaching Assistant, Architectural Engineering & Environmental Design Department, Faculty of Engineering & Technology, Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport, EgyptFollow

Abstract

Now day's architectural education is criticized, “Architectural pedagogy has become stale”. Architectural education did not change over the last 20 years; this is considered to be one of the biggest weaknesses. School of architecture now a days suffer to meet the transforming architectural practice, more over students are not educated to meet the market demand. The gap between the architectural education and the architectural practice is increasing each day due to the rapid change in technologies and market demand, more over architectural school still has traditional design studio, where students do not practice architecture. This paper aims to prove that linking the architectural education with real projects during the undergrad time, improves the students architectural practices after graduating describing an innovative and very successful final year project course that has been provided several architectural schools.

Keywords

Architectural education, live projects, Architectural pedagogy, Design studio

Disciplines

Architecture | Arts and Humanities | Education | Engineering

Recommended Citation

El Wafa, Ahmed and Khedr, Fadwa (2016) "ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION RELATION TO ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE," Architecture and Planning Journal (APJ): Vol. 23: Iss. 2, Article 14.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54729/2789-8547.1083