Developing Creative Thinking in Beginning Design

Stephen Temple teaches beginning design and theory at the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA. He studies philosophy and psychology as a precursor to creative thinking and builds to explore theory. His recent book, Making Thinking: Beginning Architectural Design Education (2011) supports making as a foundation experience for design education.

Part I: Creative Traditions in the Contemporary Design Educational Context 1 Beginning Design: Seven Points 2 Blurry Target Part II: Transformative Development Through Learning Creativity 3 The Touch of Hands and the Awakening of Sensibility: A Creative Thought at the Beginning Level in Architecture 4 The Structure of Knowledge and Beginning Design Education 5 Threshold of Uncertainty and Design Education 6 Zen and/in Beginning Design Education Part III: Creative Decision Making, Uncertainty, Failure, and Openness 7 Uncertainty and Creative Decision Making in Beginning Design Experiences 8 A Temporal Attitude 9 Dashed Hopes: Lessons in the Failure of Best Intentions 10 The Open Project: Field Notes for an Investigation Part IV: Embodied and Phenomenological Approaches in Beginning Design 11 The Spatial Body in the Proto-Architectural Phase of Design 12 Violet Light Under a Saffron Sky: Creativity, Phenomenology, and Speculative Realism in Beginning Design 13 In the Making: Creative Thinking in the Architectural Design Studio Part V: Creativity and Making 14 Where Do Ideas Come From? A Hands-On Strategy for Designing and Building Architecture 15 Oculata Manus: On the Role of the Body in the Making of Creative Minds 16 DESIGN-BUILD Build/Design: An Inquiry-Based Approach to Teaching Beginning Design Students 17 Think>Make and Make/Think: Beginning Steps in Architectural Design