Training Business Skills to Architecture Students: a case for Curriculum Change

Abstract

The 21st century is characterized by advancement in technology, communication and globalization. Critical and impressive to this advancement is opportunity for people to compete. This paper takes a look at teaching of business skills to architecture students. It examines entrepreneurship approach as an avenue for the architecture students to create and develop their own businesses as a way of addressing unemployment after graduation. The paper recognizes that technological changes have had their impact on the practice of architecture hence the need for students to imbued with IT architecture skills to enable them perform various tasks. The paper further identifies the decline in the number of architectural design competition in schools of architecture. These competitions are vehicles for promotion and exposure of building talents, so the paper advocates for their organization and resuscitation in schools of architecture in Nigeria.