On the Nature of the Conceptual Schemata Development of Architecture Students

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https://doi.org/10.15320/ICONARP.2019.67

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Education, .architecture, conceptual schema, architectural precedent

Abstract

Embedded within the theoretical and conceptual frameworks implied by the schemata theory and studies on architectural precedent knowledge, the present study is based on a research that investigates and evaluates two major issues within the context of architectural education. First is the level and characteristics of the conceptual schema of the students of architecture have had just before their education in architecture starts, and second, the nature, and the characteristic of that precise conceptual schema’s development and transformation throughout their formal education. This study, on the other hand, reports a comparative analysis and evaluation of two particular stages: 1st year, before their formal education starts, and 3rd year, as it was assumed by the study, as the stage when their disciplinary schemata is already roughly “formed.” Findings showed that students not only developed their conceptual schemata and their existing schemata is transformed into a more specialized and field-specific one, but also they have developed a set of skills which might be called “designerly seeing,” and “designerly thinking.”

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Hakan Anay, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Osmangazi University, Eskişehir, TURKEY.

Hakan Anay is an associate professor of architecture in Department of Architecture, Eskisehir Osmangazi University. He is interested in architectural theory, architectural design, and design education. He edited a number of architectural theory books, as a part of an ongoing series project: “Architecture Theory Library.”

Ülkü Özten, Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Osmangazi University, Eskişehir, TURKEY.

Ulku Ozten is an Assist. Prof. Dr. at the Department of Architecture in ESOGU Turkey and teaches design studios and theory courses in both undergraduate and graduate programs. Her research and writings concern architectural design history, theory, criticism and epistemology. She is currently working with Hakan Anay as the editor of a publication project called “Architecture Theory Library”.

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28-06-2019

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Anay, H., & Özten, Ülkü. (2019). On the Nature of the Conceptual Schemata Development of Architecture Students. ICONARP International Journal of Architecture and Planning, 7(1), 78–98. https://doi.org/10.15320/ICONARP.2019.67

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