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Studying behaviour and thoughts of expert designers is regarded as one of the most important areas in design research, and applying the results of it could have effective implication for design education. In one of these researches the creative approaches applied by three professional designers...

It has been almost one decade that architectural design studios of B.A are being thought in Architecture Faculties of our country. In spite of that, faculties of architecture has been established with the purpose of educating manpower that is serviceable to organize human life spaces, unfortunately, this purpose has not been achieved in architecture profession And differences between needs of society, architectural education and it’s influence on gratuates’ ability are the most important problems in ...

Preliminary design ideas, mostly not manifest, are generated in the designers’ minds at the very early stages of their encounter with the design problems. This paper reports a study of the sources from which these ideas are originated, and the corresponding role each source plays in the process of designing. The study was undertaken through the analysis of semi-structured interviews with eight Iranian professional architects about the ideation process of at least one of their design projects. To complement the data gathered through interviews, each interview was followed by a discussion session within a group of graduate architecture students, reflecting …

Almost there are design process descriptions and problem-solving methods, as much as the number of designers who have been. Mentioning these methods and different experiences in designing are ...