The design studio environment has remained the same throughout the past century. As the Studio Culture Task Force of the American Institute of Architecture Students (ALAS) (Koch et al., 2006) noted, the ongoing ch...
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The design studio environment has remained the same throughout the past century. As the Studio Culture Task Force of the American Institute of Architecture Students (ALAS) (Koch et al., 2006) noted, the ongoing changes in architecture education are not aligned with today's fastchanging world, especially in the context of architectural practice. The AlAS analyzed the design studio problem and expressed doubts on the effectiveness of current studio practices in providing adequate design-thinking education. The report indicates that studio culture values project appearance instead of the actual design process. In recent years, similar problems have been the topic of debates in Khartoum. Criticisms are mostly centered on the observation that students show no interest in the design process and tend to focus on form making. As a result, efforts to teach design methods and to restore the balance between creativity and rationality in the design process have failed. The reason is related to the difficulties associated with the implicit nature of conventional design methods. These difficulties, which are common in architecture schools, include the lack of a clearly defined design methodology and the misunderstood role of the systematic approach to design in the studio. Nevertheless, signs of change are gradually emerging, as demonstrated by the global call for change in the studio environment. This call for change indicates a general agreement on the need for the reorientation of architectural design education toward an engaging policy that considers the social responsibility of architects. This study proposes that the route for change is through the return of rationalism in the studio. Since the 1960 s, many writers have recognized the importance of balancing rationality and creativity, which are mutually interdependent, in the design process. From this perspective, the research question is drawn: how can we bridge the gap between the rational and the creative design activit
BACKGROUND Globally,patients with diabetes suffer from increased disease severity and mortality due to coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19).Old age,high body mass index(BMI),comorbidities,and complications of diabetes a...
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BACKGROUND Globally,patients with diabetes suffer from increased disease severity and mortality due to coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19).Old age,high body mass index(BMI),comorbidities,and complications of diabetes are recognized as major risk factors for infection severity and *** To investigate the risk and predictors of higher severity and mortality among inhospital patients with COVID-19 and type 2 diabetes(T2D)during the first wave of the pandemic in Dubai(March–September 2020).METHODS In this cross-sectional nested case-control study,a total of 1083 patients with COVID-19 were *** study included 890 men and 193 *** these,427 had T2D and 656 were *** clinical,radiographic,and laboratory data of the patients with and without T2D were *** predictors of mortality in COVID-19 non-survivors were identified in patients with and without *** T2D patients with COVID-19 were older and had higher BMI than those without *** had higher rates of comorbidities such as hypertension,ischemic heart disease,heart failure,and more life-threatening *** laboratory parameters of disease severity were significantly higher than in those without ***,these patients had a longer hospital stay and a significantly higher mortality *** died from COVID-19 at a rate three times higher than patients *** laboratory and radiographic severity indices in non-survivors were high in patients with and without *** the univariate analysis of the predictors of mortality among all COVID-19 non-survivors,significant associations were identified with old age,increased white blood cell count,lymphopenia,and elevated serum troponin *** multivariate analysis,only lymphopenia was identified as an independent predictor of mortality among T2D *** Patients with COVID-19 and T2D were older with higher BMI,more comorbidities,higher disease severity indices,more severe proinflamma
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