this article has conducted to examine different methods of selecting students in order to improve the quality of learning in architecture. the main question is to identify a series of appropriate criteria to examine and select qualified applicants for entering into the schools of architecture. this article tries to find a practical way for selecting students to study architecture. the nature of...

without the surrounding environment of a site, architecture loses its full meaning. in the evolutionof the design process, a site's environment should be understood as the integral factor within which a designed productor artifact is expected to perform. the environment is not of secondary priority. every building is intertwined with itscontext; context being its physical, visual and ecological...

the author in this research has tried to link the alexander pattern language theory, which is based on human oriented and spatial factors, to landscape design, which could come to a cyclic model of “a pattern language for landscape design” in iranian schools of architecture. so, a landscape design process based on the value of human-oriented approach, which is extracted from other values, and t...

An architecture for delivering interactive multimedia courseware to schools, known as the Distributed and Interactive Courseware Environment (DICE), 1 is being developed on a testbed consisting of (1) a network-resident architecture supported by a highspeed ATM WAN, (2) a classroom-resident architecture consisting of PC LANs in participating school classrooms, and (3) a satellite communications...

Editorial Summary In »Architecture Schools and Their Relationship with Research: It’s Complicated«, Jan Silberberger describes the problematic divide between practicing architects that teach design at architecture schools scholars investigating practices of designing from a theoretical or social scientific perspective. Identifying three recurrent misunderstandings these two groups, he stresses ...