Investigating the Effects of Group Working in Studying Interior Architecture

Architecture design education is based on studio teaching and designing projects. Designing is a matter of analysing, synthesising, evaluating and presenting ideas of a solution in drawings and 3D models. Therefore, the social and intellectual outcomes of learning in groups have an important contribution. This study will focus on the role of group working as a means of enhancing problem solving, analyzing and presentation skills. It is based on the qualitative research through open-ended interviews with 144 interior architecture students at Bilkent University. It discusses and concludes with a number of suggestions for how to implement group work in interior architecture education context.