Thinking Skills in Architectural Work A Study of Thinking Skill Levels at Student of Architecture

عبدالرزاق, اسماء محمد حسين; جعفر الخفاجي, علي محسن

doi:10.30684/etj.29.3.20

	Thinking Skills in Architectural Work A Study of Thinking Skill Levels at Student of Architecture
Engineering and Technology Journal
Article 1, Volume 29, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 125-152 PDF (7.81 M)
DOI: 10.30684/etj.29.3.20
Authors
اسماء محمد حسين عبدالرزاق; علي محسن جعفر الخفاجي
Abstract
A skill is the learned capacity to carry out pre-determined results often with the minimum outlay of time, energy, or both . Skills can often be divided into domain - general and domain - specific skills . An architect should ideally be a person possessing large variety of skills and capabilities like : good communication, shows strong drawing able to solve problem, capable in abstract thinking and seeing the wider context of things and believes in collaboration. In practice, architects usually are good at technologies, project work, but in the previous studies they seem a lacking of framework knowledge about thinking skills and their levels in architectural education , and that what the research problem concentrates on .To achieve this it is necessary to : formulate conceptual framework about thinking skills which consists of three layers : first, the nature of thinking (kind and its direction), second productive thinking strategies , and third the necessary skills to fulfill the design process which consists of eight skills , and the application focuses on four ; focusing skills, organizing skills, analyzing skills and generating skills which applied on texts written by the students themselves . This paper shows that the significant skill was focusing skills, where the students attending to selected piece of information and ignoring others by well defining problem .

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