Abstract:

Since the day that computer technologies entered in architecture environment, many things have been said, and there have been efforts in this direction. However, They have not soared being used as a means of drawing and visualization. The change of this situation began to be possible with developing digital technology. Computer is no longer a means that undertakes the presentation of the designed but has took the shape of design atmosphere that gives direction to design and provides the improvement of design process in a recycling way. Undoubtedly, change is not only changing the architectural product but also changing the process and methods under which the product is obtained. With the usage of computer as a means of developing design, various model soccurred such as parametric design, algorithmic design based on recycling systems, design based on animation, and design based on performance, and entered in architecture area as new design methods. The designer can give direction to design by parametrically entering to the program data such as the direction of wind, day light and scenery, and the flow of pedestrians- vehicle. These methods made the recycling of architectural form and the practicability of them by featuring geometries except for Euclidian. It is observed that depending on new methods, the design process has changed and the existing methods remained foreign to new methods. This situation naturally enforces the education of architecture to keep pace with the change by developing new processes and models. It will undoubtedly not be easy for the educators to change themselves and systems in today’s education system where still goes the argument of the advantages and disadvantages of hand drawing and computer drawing. In this study, it was aimed to examine the effects of new design processes and methods brought by digital design in education environment. In this respect, primarily, the differences between traditional design process and digital design process was discussed. Afterwards, how the education model that is shaped according to traditional design method can change according to digital design method was scrutinized and questioned  by dealing with the examples throughout the world.  

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