Creativity in Architecture Students (A Survey on Three Models for Knowledge Transfer on Students Views)

Education in architecture, like the education in other artistic fields, is one of the challenging issues in the artistic and educational centers throughout the world. Enjoying creativity in these fields, especially in the architectural design, is among the main challenging problems that the students face. Paying due attention to the creativity of students as well as its development approaches in the lessons of architectural design have been among the main goals of the present research. Therefore the authors, after completion of a thorough and comprehensive library research and literature review, come across this conclusion that creativity is not only an ability that can be developed, but also there are various methods for its development, like enhancing creativity through enjoying others, knowledge and experiments. According to this principle, creativity can be improved by proper methods of knowledge and experiments transfer. This principle, being also emphasized in educational psychology, in chosen as the theoretical frame of the present research. Thus the authors designed and distributed a questionnaire consisting of three proposed methods to determine the best method of knowledge of and experiment transfer to the students in architectural design, along with other related questions including demographic questions. Analysis of the collected data, suggested the Interaction of Teacher and Senior Students in a Common Atelier as the best method in the view of the students who participated in the study. It was also proposed as a method of atelier management. Further emphasis on the key role of teachers in the transfer of the reality of creativity’s development potential was among the other main results of the present research.