Design Thinking and Critical Thinking, Part 1: The Bridge to Practice

Send us Fan Mail Is critical thinking in architecture any different from critical thinking in engineering or other design disciplines? I went looking, and the striking line I found is this: firms treat problem identification and critical thinking as the definitive bridge between an amateur student project and a viable real-world design. Anyone can learn the software. What practices want are graduates who can dissect complex constraints and arrive at intentional, logical solutions. That bridge...