A Comparative Comparison of the New Curriculums of Undergraduate Architecture Education in Iran with Old Curriculum

Educational planners always looking to revise the content of the curriculum to coordinate them with needs of the community and vocation, also to provide information utilization possibility and Useful educational methods. Architecture curriculum recently revised by the University of Tehran and Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, which have replaced the architectural engineering curriculum of the Supreme Council of Planning. In this research, by using research methods of comparative George Brady new curricula undergraduate architectural education with a curriculum former compared to strengths and weaknesses and the similarities and differences between curricula based on research questions analyzed and be identified. The results show that these revisions are more limited to changing chapters based on increasing or decreasing units, changing prerequisites, changing course types, changing unit types, changing course names, or increasing or decreasing courses. The similarities between them are more in the domain of educational processes. And the need for revision to organize the structure of architectural education in order to achieve three objectives to meet the needs of the country, according to Iranian-Islamic identity and coordination with the international training course in Iran and to respond more effectively to the urgent needs, true and righteous society.