Abstract:

The Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism from Cluj-Napoca educative program develops during six years of study. Each year students have different psychological characteristics which affect the learning process and the performances. The study’s aim is to fill the gap between professors expectations from students in architecture and how their achievement and the students’ performance abilities.

The profile of the education curricula allows them to evolve and manifest in individual ways, through art and science, having free unlimited access to information and knowledge in individual study or guided by professors. The profile of the education system allows creative expression of each student in a guided manner. Also, the educational profile is constructed by offering professors as models of personalities and professionals accepted by the society and showcasing a certain view on the educational process and on the profession practice.

At every year of study level there are appointed a dean and a guidance counsellor assuming a specific role depending on the year of study and according with the level of development and independence of the students. Also, at the level of educational activities, in architecture studios between the student and the professor important learning and guidance relationships are formed. In this paper we aim at identifying three aspects of the life in the faculty of architecture and urbanism. The first aspect is the psychological profile of the students of each age corresponding to the years of study. The second aspect is the role of dean and the counsellor in guiding students of each year of study. The third aspect analysed is the tutoring relationship between the student and the teacher in the architecture studios.

The purpose of the study is to define for each year of study an approach to the education guidance for the students to perform and achieve their potential in educational activities and further on in the professional field as autonomous and independent architects. The only research question of this paper is how much the education system should induce accepted model that students will copy to be accepted, and how much should it encourage and sustain the development of the particular individuals and eventually discover new ways of being and manifesting in the professional realm.

Keywords:

Architecture student psychological profile, architecture professional development, architecture education expectations and development.