Reflective Subjects in Kant and Architectural Design Education

by Peg Rawes

Introduction


In architectural design education, students develop drawing, conceptual, and critical skills that are informed by their ability to reflect upon the production of ideas in design processes and in the urban, environmental, social, historical, and cultural contexts that define architecture and the built environment. Students' ability to critically engage in the discipline is partly generated by their powers of reflective thinking—for example, when they learn to actively reflect upon processes of design and, in turn, to transform these aesthetic judgments into embodied "knowledges" in the production of the built environment.