'Personalization' in architectural representations at the architectural design studio

Architectural design studio covers significant part of today's architectural education. The communication between the tutor and the student is the basic relationship at the studio. The originality of communication channels between the tutor and the student describes the advance dialogue. Communication channels have been limited as visual communication channels in the research. Any kinds of expression tools that create these communication channels referred as 'architectural representations'. Research labels student's architectural representations as personalized in accordance with their originality. Increasing amount of these kinds of representations in the medium of architectural education strengthens the communication between and build much more productive and advance educational environment. In order to explain the personalized situations of the student's architectural representations, certain terms have been analyzed such as: "Architectural design studio", "architectural representation", "personalization in architecture", and the relation of these terms such as "architectural representations at the architectural design studio", "the communication between the tutor and the student", and "architectural representation's personalization by the student". Historical approach to architectural representations took shape around two main terms as 'history of architectural education' and 'architectural representation' in the context of personalization. Entire developments and methods throughout the historical processes form today's architectural education environment and architectural representation environment cumulatively. 'Personalization' of architectural representations has being mentioned consciously in today's informal and innovative architectural design studios. The position of personalization in today's studios has been analyzed under two topics. Firstly, awareness of the student about the concept of personalization such as 'the variety of representation tools and representation technics', 'concerns and intentions of own', and 'the 'changeable' ground of architecture' have been analyzed. Afterwards, personalization has been traced from representations which are built up from these subjects: 'Hybridization', 'modes of seeing' and ' reinforcing the relation'. All of these subjects have been clarified by the various diagrams derived from the diagram of 'pool of components in the student's mind'. It is aimed to contribute development of innovative architectural representations and working communication at the architectural design studio by the study of the concept of personalization. At the present time, although informal and innovative concepts of architectural representation are not something new, it is not always possible to observe these concepts at the architectural design studios. Giving a place to these concepts at the universities stands in quite critical position in the sense of development of architectural practice and discourse.