Criticizing architectural education through abstraction

As a result of the researches conducted so far, it is determined that the individuals who have received architectural education, gain a differentiation in perception, and therefore, the architectural education is somehow directive and distinctive. For this reason, in the paper, it is tried to analyze the differences of the perception and expression of abstraction by the effects of architectural education. In the lights of learning and teaching relationship, the change and/or changes occurring through abstractions among the individuals who have newly started to receive the architectural education and who are about to complete the architectural education are put forward. (C) 2010 Published by Elsevier Ltd.