Rethinking architectural design studio education in global era

Abstract

This study was aimed to review the materials and education methods in architectural design studio in the context of global developments that are so rapidly changing. This issue becomes important to be put forward and studied more in depth in order to prepared material and education methods that was not only to create to a new form, but at the same time have a broad cultural based. The method used in this study first of all, examined theoretical studies on approaches that are relevant to the design process. These approaches then formulated to be a new approach as well as how to apply it in architectural design studio education. Based on the results of the analysis can be traced that in the education of architectural studio it took three tiered stages in line with the level of comprehensiveness. The first stage is the understanding of perceptual expression of elements and arrangement of architectural elements. The second stage is the understanding that in each element and the arrangement of the elements of architectural expression has always adhered by cultural references. The third stage is the understanding of the expression symbolization agreement that contributed to the programming functions and the formulation of architectural formation. The research concluded that education architecture studio recently must incorporate elements of ideology, tradition and widely culture in order to contribute to the change in an increasingly globalized world.