A Study for the Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Architectural Education

Recently, we have experienced three viral outbreaks that started with SARS (Covid-1) since 2003. The latest epidemic, Covid-19, was effective in a much wider geography than the others, causing the life and economies of almost the whole world to stop for a long time. The epidemic still continues at different scales in many countries and creates different mutations in waves. Social distancing between individuals and inadequate indoor ventilation have come to the fore, as the epidemic is largely spread by suspended droplets in the air and by contact. Due to this feature, space designs made without considering virus-related epidemics have started to be questioned on different platforms. Although changes are expected in the built environments after the pandemic, from urban planning to space designs such as education, housing and work, discussions are rising about how the teachings of the epidemic will be reflected in architectural education. Since the spaces designed with the current architectural norms do not prevent the epidemic, it is expected that how these spaces to be used during the pandemic should be designed should be discussed in architecture schools. The article aims to make visible how important the problem is by giving examples of spatial changes in architectural education.