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Conclusion
Future Architects
This work emphasises the need for academic revisions of architectural
design education to develop an academic program which should be
technology orientated. Technology should be used to assist and
provoke the students‟ creativity and assist collaboration. The students
should be made aware of technological advances and how to make
proper utilisation of these advances for better innovation in design. This
work proposed a framework for the implementation of VCCS at the
conceptual end of the design process. The researcher believes that
conducting such implementation is important for educating the students
and help them to understand the meaning and value of designing at the
conceptual end. This should enable the student to design culturally
appropriate buildings. To enable the students to design culturally
related buildings; there is a need for a new approach to the design of the
built environment which necessitates the revision of arсhitесtural
programmеѕ curricula and their implementation and use of available
technologies.
It is recommended that arсhitесtural educators balance the way in which
students view relationships with the physical and social world.. Teaching
the students skills to be creative and innovative requires opening their
horizons to many aspects and elements including the social world in
which they live and their surrounding nature, to enable them to design
with relation to the nature and not opposing it. It is therefore important to
utilise technology for achieving this goal. Proper technology integration
in the curriculum is a requirement. It is important to make sure that the
technology is utilised rather than dominating. Improper integration can
lead to dominance by technology which results into disruption in
learning.
This work suggested a framework for integrating technology in design
education. The framework utilises technology for promoting competent
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