Strategies for Making Qualitative the System of Education of Architecture in Iran

"Education system" is a complicated concept of humanistic, philosophical and scientific concepts that studying and presenting solution to improve it requires comprehensive identifying influences on it; in particular when this concept arises in an interdisciplinary field like architecture. The basis of the system of higher education is hidden in the term of system that poses a "holistic", "process approach", and related to the "context" view in relation between the teacher and learner. The education process in Iran often is executed in the form of quasi- system or closed and rigid system and education program is based on three approaches of method, content, and purpose. These triple approaches, however, are effective in the process of education of science, but in humanities and art disciplines and particularly architecture, because of their educational content, don't have necessary efficiency and it's better to be optimized. Training the architect is a complicated process from interaction of teacher, student, environment, and educational goals and briefly is based on a kind of growing and educating from inside. The current article by presenting four basic characteristics of architect training including "temperamental", "experimental", "interactive", "creative" education and by analyzing the relation between quadruple elements of architect training and triple principles of the system of higher education, is trying to present suggestions for improvement the system of education of architecture. This research has begun with a look at the concept of the system of higher education and checking its problems and analyzing the system of education of architect and by presenting a framework for efficient relation between the program of usual education of architecture and architect training, suggests strategies for enhancing the system of education of architecture in three "holism", comprehensiveness", and "flexibility" approaches.