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Differences between young architects´ and non-architects´ aesthetic evaluation of buildings

ŠAFÁROVÁ, K. PÍRKO, M. JUŘÍK, V. PAVLICA, T. NÉMETH, O.

Original Title

Differences between young architects´ and non-architects´ aesthetic evaluation of buildings

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

Previous studies showed significant differences between expert architects and laypeople in aesthetic evaluations of buildings. However, studies exploring the aesthetic preferences of architecture students are lacking. The present study focused on a population of students and young architects to explore the aesthetic opinion shift within architectural careers. This study was intended to be a conceptual replication of the study of Brown and Gifford (2001) in a Central European context. A total of 109 participants (21–28 years old) evaluated 40 randomized pictures of houses to detect whether non-architecture undergraduates and fresh graduates of architecture would express different aesthetic preferences compared with their peers from the general population. The study also examined whether laypersons can predict the preferences of architects, and vice versa. Results show a trend that is contrary to the original research, that is, young architects and laypeople did not significantly differ in their aesthetic evaluations of the given stimuli. Analyses revealed high prediction ability in young architects and their non-architect peers. Moreover, the existing professional experience of young architects had no influence on the accuracy of their estimations. Findings suggest that the professional shift in architects’ expertise is obscured at an early career stage, as revealed in their aesthetic preferences.

Keywords

Environmental aesthetics; Aesthetic preferences; Building aesthetics; Environmental apperception; Professional opinion shift;

Authors

ŠAFÁROVÁ, K.; PÍRKO, M.; JUŘÍK, V.; PAVLICA, T.; NÉMETH, O.

Released

17. 5. 2019

Publisher

Higher Education Press Limited Company

Location

China

ISBN

2095-2635

Periodical

Frontiers of Architectural Research

Year of study

8

Number

2

State

People's Republic of China

Pages from

229

Pages to

237

Pages count

9

URL

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095263519300251

Full text in the Digital Library

http://hdl.handle.net/11012/184683

BibTex

@article{BUT157001,
  author="Katarína {Šafárová} and Martin {Pírko} and Vojtěch {Juřík} and Tomáš {Pavlica} and Ondřej {Németh}",
  title="Differences between young architects´ and non-architects´ aesthetic evaluation of buildings",
  journal="Frontiers of Architectural Research",
  year="2019",
  volume="8",
  number="2",
  pages="229--237",
  doi="10.1016/j.foar.2019.04.001",
  issn="2095-2635",
  url="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095263519300251"
}