SUDDEN TRANSITION FROM PHYSICAL TO DIGITAL: COLOR LEARNING IN ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION DURING THE COVID 19 PANDEMIC

COVID-19 pandemic enforced all disciplines to sudden change in their education methods. As having a practice-based education methodology, architecture education necessitated creative ways to overcome this critique change. This qualitative study searches for the ways to deliver a physical concept, color, within a non-physical setting, and explores the effectiveness of color studies in distance architectural education in COVID-19 Pandemic period. This study specifically focuses on how asynchronous distance education affected the color knowledge and learning in architecture education. In this study, the effectiveness of the color course in terms of architecture and design education is evaluated according to its impact on gaining knowledge about basics of color theory, understanding color and material combinations and emotional associations on those combinations, gaining skills in shaping individuals’ interior space experience, covering the potential of various color practices. This study is an action research and assignment outputs, self-assessments of participating students’ work, visuals of the submissions, and observations made by the researcher are the main data sources of this study. The study revealed the importance of using various communication methods to fully capture the concept of color in architectural education and pointed out the positive aspects of hybrid education.