Creativity and Knowledge in Architectural Education

One of the most important problems in architectural education is that students do not have the ability to transfer theoretical knowledge into practice. Architectural students generally have some difficulties about creating their own design ideas due to their habit of learning by rote instilled by their pre-university education. Students cannot find enough encouragement and ability to develop individual projects as a new design which uses all kinds of information from previous periods. For example, in architectural education students need to use the basic design principles learned from the first level all the way up to the final level, and even for their whole lives. Students have to acquire some skills such as drawing and design in addition to their theoretical training. In their architectural education, students need to design and draw through learning by trial and error in addition to their theoretical training. In this study, the emphasis will generally be on the rules of transferring theoretical knowledge into practice, and some advice will be given on this subject.