ABSTRACT
This chapter identifies specific issues that relate broader urban design problems to architectural education in Thailand, and demonstrates how the issue climate and rainfall was realized as a framework for architectural designers to propose creative solutions. In the past, issues relating to the urban environment have been a small part of architectural training in colleges and universities in Thailand. In these architectural studios, engagement in urban issues has primarily been confined to the building scale and to the boundaries of the physical site. In order to redefine the studio program to contemporaneously address urban conditions and architectural skills, the studio began focusing on how resources in urban planning and design could be developed and applied to architectural design. Water management, transportation management, air quality, and land use rank as the most pressing problems associated with the intense urbanization of Bangkok.
