基于不同文化背景的建筑教育思考

设计思维是分析思维和综合思维的混合物。针对人们对分析思维非常熟悉,但对综合思维缺乏仔细研究的状况,区别了这种思维模式的几种要素,如变异、转化以及可应用于设计中的创造性的曲解。通过１９世纪一个鲜为人知的铸铁建筑的杰作,阐明了这些要素及其概念,并介绍了在香港中文大学建筑系中,这些概念和要素是如何整合进赞赏中,以及教师所面临的问题和课程设置。

Thinking about Architectural Education Based on Different Cultural Background

In the definition proposed by author, design thinking is a hybrid of analytical thinking that aims at gaining knowledge, like that used in scientific method, and synthetical thinking that is used to create new objects. Analytical thinking is well known, but synthetical thinking has not been examined as carefully. Author distinguishes several elements of this form of thought, like transformation, translation, and creative misunderstanding that can be used in design. He demonstrates these elements and the concepts on which they are based in the examination of a little known, nineteenth century masterpiece of iron architecture, the Sayn Foundry in Bendorf, Germany. He shows how these concepts are integrated into the teaching of architecture in the studio at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and what that means for staffing problems and the development of the curriculum.