Simultaneous education of architectural basic courses, efficient on students’ motivation (Case study: The contents of Applied Geometry)

According to the various prerequisite courses in architectural design education and the lack of coordination amongst studio tutors and improper choosing of exercises, many drawbacks will raise in the process of architectural education. This will result in losing the students’ motivations. The tradition of incessantly undergraduate and graduate education of architecture in Iran, has been changed and separated from each other in 1999. This caused some changes in curriculum especially in the courses related to basics of architectural design. Before separating system, the introductory courses to architectural design were run in one studio and under supervision of a single group of tutors. But after separating, the courses disintegrated into several units, such as applied geometry, construction, material workshop, sketching and visual perception of built environment. The present combination method is trying to depict the effect of studios teaching methods (Integration and disintegration), on architecture students motivation. For this purpose, the practice of drawing plan and section of Staircase in the course of Applied Geometry, by students in their first semester by two methods combination (At the same time teaching basic courses) and disintegration (Independent teaching basic courses) has been considered. The test has been carried out by two groups of 18 students of Azad University in Urmia and the Valrand students' academic motivation questionnaire is used. The results indicate that teaching basic courses such as Applied Geometry in architecture alongside other parallel course, increases intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in architecture students and as a result, the quality of education improves.