here is the summary of my master thesis;
The subject of the thesis is in general based on the concept of creativity and specialised on creativity in the architectural design process.The topic, which is taken into consideration as the investigation of architectural creativity,begins with the definitions of creativity concept related with the design approaches. The creativity is firstly analysed as a concept, individual and theories.Throughout the evolution of these definitions,the common denominator of psycology,sociology,behavioral sciences and architectural design concepts are tried to be clarified. At the second part of the study,the creativity in architectural design process is deciphered by the classification of the effecting channels of architectural design process.The classification constitutes of three main parts:'personal channels' involving childhood,fantasy,imagination, metaphor,intelligence,self confidence,'social channels' include education,national culture-history, religious factors,client and 'environmental channels' that involve nature,material and climate.Also at this part,the obstacles of creativity like the security,high dicipline,perceptual and personal obstacles are underlined.The creativity techniques, Brainstorming and Synectics,which are related with architectural profession are mentioned briefly for exampling. The concrete examples of this study were chosen among the projects of the leading architects in Turkiye.The first parameter for elimination was National Architectural Exhibition and Awards.Projects among National Architectural Exhibition and Awards were selected according to the criteria for architectural creativity related with the concepts such as originality,newness and contemporaniety which are not very far apart from the criteria of jury.Concept of originality also includes sub-titles such as architectural language,conceptual approach,technology,material and at each sample different concepts primarily appears.To consider the existence of these criteria provides the evaluation of the samples related with the fact of creativity.