Reconstructing Sustainable Approaches in Architecture Education Lesson from Critique Session experience of Architecture Studio Program Nangkula Utaberta 1 , Badiossadat Hassanpour 2 , Nurakmal Goh Abdullah 3 , Mazlan Mohd Tahir 4 , Nurhananie Spalie 5 Abstract In today’s world which all concerning are about sustainable and all efforts are to troop all humans’ need with less destructive and negative effect on next generations’ portion, sustainable education as a first stage of attitude and effect on future can play an important role . Indeed if educating system be able to has a positive impact on its’ inputs, then it can import its influence to the whole society by its outputs which their number is not less. Especially in art and architecture this influence would be multiple and multilateral, because students are the future designers and peoples’ life will be influenced by them. Education is completely linked by spiritual and mental aspects and has direct effect on thoughts and ideas; even it can make a pattern and line behavior for humans’ life. So we ought to pay more attention to education phenomenon. In today’s architectural educating system, design studios as prevalent or even only way of teaching and learning are based on lectures and critique sessions. Critique sessions in contrast of usual lecture classes are new experience for students and face them to new situations that expect them to expose themselves to others critique and expect them to learn how to find creative solutions and how to create innovative outcomes in this way. And finally their success will assess in this way too. Till the domain of design is described as requiring creative thinking more than other abilities, the criteria used in assessment have been ambiguous. The expectation of forcing to routine professional critique makes the critique sessions more important. Answering to questions “How to better accept” or “how to react” on what we receive in critique sessions, beside different cultures, backgrounds and even different learning styles is the goal of this paper. To achieve this target first of all we study the different critique categories in architecture education and secondly we explore the dissatisfaction points of students and instructors in Malaysia and finally compare it with reasons of Iranians dissatisfaction from critique sessions we will find the similarities and different and will give some suggestions to upgrade the existing system. Keywords: Sustainable Approaches in Design, Critique Session, Architecture Studio In today’s world which all concerning are about sustainable and all efforts are to troop all humans’ need with less destructive and negative effect on next generations’ portion, sustainable education as a first stage of attitude and effect on future can play an important role . Indeed if educating system be able to has a positive impact on its’ inputs, then it can import its influence to the whole society by its numerous outputs. Especially in art and architecture this influence would be multiple and multilateral, because students are the future designers and peoples’ life will be influenced by them. Education is completely linked by spiritual and mental aspects and has direct effect on thoughts and ideas; even it can make patterns and line behaviors for humans’ life. So we ought to pay more attention to education phenomenon. Derek Rowntree [1] stated that if we wish to discover the truth about an educational system, we must first look to its assessment procedures. Architecture is involved with every aspect of the design process from concept to completion, and because of the nature of its education, the architect is ideally suited to exercise and maintain overall management of the project. In architectural educating system, design 1 Ir. Dr. Nangkula Utaberta is a Senior Lecturer at Architecture Department, Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment, National University of Malaysia (UKM), E-Mail: nangkula_arch@yahoo.com. 2 Badiossadat Hassanpour is a PhD Student at Architecture Department, Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment, National University of Malaysia (UKM), E-Mail: badieh.hassanpour@gmail.com. 3 Ar. Nurakmal Goh Abdullah is a Professional Architect and Senior Fellow at Department Architecture Department, Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment, National University of Malaysia (UKM), E-Mail: akmal.goh@gmail.com 4 Sr. Mazlan Mohd Tahir is a Professional Surveyor and Senior Lecturer at Department Architecture Department, Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment, National University of Malaysia (UKM), E-Mail: designaar@gmail.com 5 Nurhananie Spalie is a Research Assistant at Department Architecture Department, Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment, National University of Malaysia (UKM), E-Mail: nemo_k2h2@yahoo.com