Design studio has been the heart of architectural education since late 18 C and thus students often consider other courses as peripheral to studio. In a majority of schools, the nature of the design studio pedagogy and the way that other courses are taught appear as two systems. Courses ‘supporting studio’ have been very much a teacher-centred didactic exercise, traditionally delivered in lectu...

Web 2.0 is beyond a jargon describing technological transformation: it refers to new strategies, tools and techniques that encourage and augment informed, creative and social inter(actions). When considered in an educational context, Web 2.0 provides various opportunities for enhanced integration and for improving the learning processes in information-rich collaborative disciplines such as urba...

Creativity is fundamental to design problem-solving. This paper sets out a systematic review of the literature in relation its role architectural studio order identify central issues that impact upon this activity. Challenges and best practices reviews are outlined, procedure followed context set detail. involves an iterative evaluation process resulted pool 17 papers for analysis. Eleven theme...