Factors Influencing and Expressing Creativity; A Study on Parametric Design and Accomplished Architects

Architectural design is a difficult process for each individual. Every human being is unique; therefore, each people have different specialties. In the 21st century with the high level of stimulators, the process became more complex. Nowadays, just having a creative idea is not enough. Other variables come into consideration as expressing and implementing. Creativity assessment upon architectural designs and the systematic approach towards a design solution is to be taken into account. Therefore, the link between creativity and individuals is to be discussed by the case studies. The role of parametric architecture and architects‘ features are important factors to understand their relationship with each other. This thesis aims to analyse the factors which affect architects‘ creativity in terms of background, nature, intuition, learned behaviours with respect to parametric architecture. How creative ideas appear, how they are implemented are the notions that are wondered. Therefore, the methodology consists of qualitative data that adopted a literature review of the design process by means of theories and methodologies from the 50s, 60s as well as parametric design and architecture. Additionally, architects and their projects were analysed. Five architects and their two projects from different periods were chosen. The architects are of different ages, gender, and cultural background to increase the reliability of the data. Furthermore, all of the projects are award winners from different or similar aspects. Analysis of renowned buildings by accomplished architects and the phases that they went through has the possibility to enlighten the factors that influence creativity. Through interview articles and videos, architects‘ features were analysed by content analysis and converted into quantitative data. In addition, how creativity has been expressed is another question to seek for an answer. It will help for the creation of a passage to seek through some results whether the intuitional manners or the systematic approaches are the lead factors to affect the creativeness of designs. The findings were examined by chart and 4P model (Abraham, 2015). The person is the most noteworthy point during an idea generation but each having different motives behind it. The outcome reveals that the parametric design is a supporter of creative design, however, the creativeness of the idea comes from the architect.