Cultural values of architectural students

Culture is a dynamic reference point of a society which; constantly interacts with the environment, is shared and learned by the society members, affects the behavior of the society members and is passed on from generation to generation. Meanwhile, society members are affected by many cultural formations at the same time. Profession of an individual, for example, is one of these formations and professional cultural values are taught –consciously or unconsciously- together with technical aspects of the profession during vocational education. Thus, the hypothesis of the current study is that an architect’s professional culture starts to be shaped during the undergraduate study. A questionnaire survey based on Hofstede’s (2008) cultural dimensions has been undertaken with second and third year architectural students to test this hypothesis. Findings mainly show the effect of project based lectures on cultural formation of students