161 Int. J. Architect. Eng. Urban Plan, 29(2): 161-170 December 2019 DOI: 10.22068/ijaup.29.2.161 RESEARCH PAPER General Architecture Intuitive and logical way of thinking in the education of architectural design courses L. Alipour * Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, College of Fine Arts, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran Received: June 2019, Revised: November 2019, Accepted: November 2019 Abstract Different approaches and methods are used in the architecture design process that logical and intuitional methods are the most common ones. The role of knowledge in each method is different. Investigating aspects of knowledge demonstrated the hierarchy from data to wisdom and the interaction of explicit and tacit types, subjective and objective sources, and analytical and exploratory ways of processing knowledge. Logical methods rely more on explicit and objective knowledge with analysis, while intuitive methods rely more on tacit and subjective knowledge that processed by exploratory ways. To investigate the difference between the two methods, we conducted a survey that involved architecture students in two groups of logical and intuitive methods. Results demonstrated that they have different opinions about the role of each type of knowledge, the importance of knowledge in each step of the design process, and the role of sources of information in their design process. We concluded that an integrative method that considers different aspects and integrated interactions of all aspects of knowledge is needed.. Keywords: Knowledge, Design process, Intuitive, Logical, Architecture education 1. INTRODUCTION 1 The substantial role of knowledge in architecture design is undeniable. The architects mostly ask themselves if they have collected and analyzed the required information correctly. Logical and intuitive methods are the main methods of architectural design. The logical methods mostly are based on knowledge, logic, and scientific facts. The ‘form follows function’ motto is one aspect of this method [1]. The decisions of architecture with the intuitive method are mostly based on intuition and not analysis [2]. Just like a live plant that is grown from a seed [3]. Some think that with the logical method, more information is collected and better organized. Therefore the use of information and knowledge in intuitive methods has been underestimated. The paper aims to evaluate the different role of knowledge in the design process between logical and intuitive methods. Therefore at the first step, we identified different aspects and kinds of knowledge by scientific definitions. At the second step, we recognized the logical and intuitive methods, and the theoretical framework was made. The architect educators mostly rely on one approach Corresponding author: leila.alipour@ut.ac.ir * and deny other approaches. Difference between two methods in the use of knowledge is the main subject of this research. Therefore we asked if one of these approaches, logical or intuitive, excels in collection and the use of knowledge. In order to investigate this issue, at the third step, we conducted a questionnaire study to investigate architecture student’s viewpoint about the role of knowledge in the architectural design process and to compare the intuitive and logical method. Two groups of architecture undergraduate students were selected for this study; one group designed their first design course in the logical method and other group designed with the intuitive approach. The type of survey described here ought to provide us with the first stage of important general information about two popular methods of the architectural design process. 2. LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1. The logical and intuitive design process There are different approaches to the design theories. At the beginning theories, the design was considered as a kind of problem-solving, and some systematic methods were developed for the design process. The empirical Downloaded from ijaup.iust.ac.ir at 13:47 IRST on Sunday December 13th 2020