The impact of the learning process of architectural design on the creativity of students (Case study: The preliminaries of architectural design 1 course)

During more than half a century of university education in the field of architecture and a brief look to the experience of the architecture academic learning in Iran, the offered architecture courses has been investigated and criticized less. The main objective of architecture training is the training of individuals which had dominate on the creatively action spectrum but this question is discussed that does the architecture training program cause students' creativity? At the present time, the findings of intellectuals of educational sciences area has provided a proper field for criticism and investigation and the presentation of multilateral issues resulting from the main objective of architecture training. Therefore, the investigation of creativity education is concerned in the architectural design. For this purpose, at first is engaged to explain education process of the present situation and according to educational psychology findings with the research findings test is acted to organize short-term practices (sketch) in thepreliminaries of architectural design 1 course workshop and the questionnaires and the statistical analysis is evaluated by SPSS of education process. The obtained results show that the education process of present architectural design courses causes three basic components of the creativity metacognitive, to mean, flexibility, fluidity, authenticity and novelty (innovation) can be concluded that this education process causes the nurture of students' creativity.