Environment-Behavior (E.B) Based Architectural Training Modeling

The current investigation, which has started activity to concern with training of architecture, is aimed at data- mining in the subject of the lack of proposing theory about the teaching method in this field of study. In addition to accelerated quantitative growth, some of the basic factors in dealing with the present issue included the lack of qualitative development regarding the teaching of architecture during recent years and overlooking the subject of theorization in the field of architecture. The approach, which was taken toward this exploration in order to use and utilization from the profitability of an interdisciplinary research was led to restricting it within the behavioral sciences and by looking at pragmatism and feasibility about the contextual effect on human’s behavior was sufficed to borderlines of environmental psychological knowledge and environment- behavior studies. By definition of the research primary model that formed according to basic issues of research i.e. teaching of architecture and behavioral sciences in this study, it has been dealt with introducing and reviewing the approaches and theories in the field of research literature with three paradigms (architectural training, design process, and behavioral sciences) so that by the aid of the existing studies one could achieve the ability for recognizing the position of research and serve as a preamble for codification of its theoretical model that was based on primary model of the present treatise. In this trend, the research methodology has been posited according to this issue and research objectives comprised of finding an interdisciplinary model for architectural training based on approaches of behavioral sciences and it can be divided into two general strategic fields: “descriptive” and “analytical” areas. In descriptive field, the studied phenomena and conditions have included teaching of architecture, design process, and behavioral sciences while in analytical field, the present research has moved toward modeling in order to lead the research toward proposing of a model for training of design process that was the product of interaction between the three aforesaid factors in this pamphlet. The presented theory in this inquiry includes a new model of design process that leads to proposing a model of teaching architecture for optimization of teaching method. Acquiring the needed backgrounds in the field of environment- behavior knowledge, this model may be implemented by instructors of architectural schools at different levels.