Volume 9, Issue 1 (January 2022), Pages: 71-83

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: Architectural theory as a tool for architectural criticism necessarily employed for the betterment of architectural education

 Author(s): Ahmed Osman Ibrahim ^1, *, Ehab Momin Mohammed Sanad ², Nada Mohamed Ramadan Abdelhai ³, Ibtihaj Saad Alsadun ⁴

 Affiliation(s):

 ¹Architectural Engineering Department, College of Engineering, University of Hail, Hail, Saudi Arabia
 ²College of Architecture and Planning, Qassim University, Buraydah, Saudi Arabia
 ³Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Taif University, Taif, Saudi Arabia
 ⁴Fine Arts Department, College of Literature and Arts, University of Hail, Hail, Saudi Arabia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7972-2900

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2022.01.009

 Abstract:

Criticism, or to criticize derives from the Greek krinein meant to distinguish, which is to separate, to silt, to make a distinction. The word theory comes from the philosophical Latin term theoria meaning spectator, while in modern days means the attempt to decide architectural right and wrong on a purely intellectual base. Pedagogically architecture students participating in a review learn from whoever provides useful criticism benefiting from critiques or reviews. This research in comparison to the ones that went through focuses on Architectural Criticism and Architectural Theory and which one stems from the other, their significance in architectural education in form of crit or review and shows a road map of how reviews are to take place by their different constituents. The purpose of the paper is to see whether the architectural theory is stemming from architectural criticism and whether it’s employed in architectural education. The methodology of this paper depends on both theoretical and analytical studies through three major fields; architectural criticism, architectural theory, and the analytical study of architectural education in form of critique or review. Finally, the paper concludes by linking architectural education mostly in its architectural design projects critique or review form with architectural theory and its dependence upon architectural criticism. 

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 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Criticism, Architectural criticism, Architectural theory, Architectural education, Critique, Review

 Article History: Received 16 June 2021, Received in revised form 7 September 2021, Accepted 11 November 2021

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 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

 Ibrahim AO, Sanad EMM, and Abdelhai NMR et al. (2022). Architectural theory as a tool for architectural criticism necessarily employed for the betterment of architectural education. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 9(1): 71-83

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