Pedagogy of Architectural Education on Sustainability in Malaysia – Student Perspective. Issue 4 (1st December 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Keumala, Nila; Younus, Mohammed Amer; Kuan, Yong; Razak, Asrul Sani Bin Abdul; Ismail, Muhammad Azzam; Al-Obaidi, Karam M.
• Is Part Of: Open house international. Volume 41:Issue 4(2016)
• Page Start: 104
• Page End: 108
• Publication Date: 2016-12-01
• Subjects: Learning -- Sustainability -- Architectural Education -- Design Studio; 363.5
• DOI: 10.1108/OHI-04-2016-B0014
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0168-2601

Abstract

Abstract : The increasing global concerns about the environmental degradation and climate changes oblige architecture students to apply sustainable design approaches in their studio projects. Therefore, renewable energy raises the expectation of providing sustainable solutions for their architectural design proposals. This paper aims to investigate the learning of students in knowledge, awareness and applicability on sustainability during their first three years of the part 1 architecture programme. Surveys were conducted on 500 students from eight architecture schools from the local universities, two architecture schools from the polytechnic colleges and three architectural schools from the overseas universities. These survey results from 335 respondents confirmed that the learning on sustainability through self (51.6%), peer (48.6%) and design studio lecturers (37.0%). These results confirmed also that most respondents did rely on pre-design assessments to develop sustainable design strategies in their final architectural design proposals. These results concluded that the perception of architecture students on learning sustainability is based mainly on other sources. These findings provide knowledge for educationists and practitioners towards the planning of architecture curriculum and the implementation of pedagogical approach in sustainability. This paper determines the most important source of learning on sustainability knowledge for students in the pedagogy at university level.