Engineering thinking to enhance architectural design
Authors:
- Stanislav Avsec,
- Magdalena Jagiełło-Kowalczyk,
- Przemysław Markiewicz
Abstract
The creative aspect of architecture remains a contentious issue in terms of teaching and assessing at tertiary level where creativity appears as an essential component of the design process. Where and how it fits into the overall structure is contentious. This article introduces a new perspective and direction for assessing and encouraging creativity in the design of applications in architectural design education. Assessment is grounded on engineering thinking developed using design-based activities. To evaluate engineering design, a model, which consists of five sub-factors is proposed and allows measuring divergent thinking, convergent thinking, constraint satisfaction, problem identification, and problem solving. For the purpose of this study, 129 architecture students from Cracow University of Technology were recruited. The research instrument in this study proved reliable and valid. In this article, an argument is developed that identifying students’ creative engineering design ability is an alternative to expertise, allowing teaching, learning and assessment to focus on process and product, especially in an architectural design context.
- Record ID
- CUT6f0bd7c0e04342c0b2c4cd32d9adfd98
- Publication categories
- ; ;
- Author
- Journal series
- World Transactions on Engineering and Technology Education, ISSN 1446-2257
- Issue year
- 2018
- Vol
- 16
- No
- 2
- Pages
- 134-139
- Other elements of collation
- rys.; tab.; wykr.; Bibliografia (na s.) - 139; Bibliografia (liczba pozycji) - 24; Oznaczenie streszczenia - Abstr.; Numeracja w czasopiśmie - Vol. 16, No. 2
- Conference
- 2018 Conference on Engineering and Architecture Design Education, 2018, 11-06-2018 - 14-06-2018, Bratislava, Słowacja
- Keywords in English
- engineering thinking, architectural design
- URL
- http://www.wiete.com.au/journals/WTE&TE/Pages/TOC_V16N2.html Opening in a new tab
- Language
- eng (en) English
- License
- Score (nominal)
- 15
- Additional fields
- Indeksowana w: Scopus
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://cris.pk.edu.pl/info/article/CUT6f0bd7c0e04342c0b2c4cd32d9adfd98/
- URN
urn:pkr-prod:CUT6f0bd7c0e04342c0b2c4cd32d9adfd98
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