Exploring the Role of Vernacular Architectural Criteria in Providing Urban Resiliency: A Focus on Graduate Architecture Education
Abstract
Architecture is a platform that embraces environmentally friendly design principles and fosters collaboration. Future architecture students and graduates require new skills to address changing environmental conditions and climate changes. Buildings play a crucial role in environmental conditions, urban development, and the well-being of users. Architects have a responsibility to design safe and resilient buildings for sustainable cities. This study discusses the importance of sustainability awareness in architectural education and shares the results of the graduate course "Sustainability and Materials in Architecture." It emphasizes the role of buildings in addressing natural and urban challenges. The course outcomes showed that sustainable development goals can be achieved by drawing insights from vernacular architecture. Through such curricula, young architects can enhance their ability to design buildings and settlements that withstand natural disasters like earthquakes, floods, and landslides.
Keywords
Architectural education, sustainable development, urban resilience, sustainable design, vernacular architecture
Thanks
The article complied with national and international research and publication ethics. Ethics committee permission was not required in the study. We would like to thank Dilara DİNDAR, Hande SAVAŞ, İlayda MAŞAT, Marildo BACELLİ, Melike GÜLAY, M. Gazihan ÇELİK, graduate students of Bursa Uludag University, Department of Architecture, who contributed to the article with their homework studies during the year.
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