Innovation in university didactics : Towards a better preparation of the architecture student for the professional environment.

The reflection on the university curriculum and methodology of teaching architecture in Tunisia brings us to opt for a better preparation of the student for a highly competitive professional environment. Trying to understand the deep specificities of the discipline of architecture and to identify the major features of the relationship between the academic and the professional environment allow to identify some tracks and some possible actions related to their teaching. The emphasis is placed on an innovative two-pronged approach. The first concerns a teaching method oriented more towards multidisciplinarity and group teaching. The second concerns the didactic content of the transversal and the optional teaching units which must be both imbued with an applied character and open to communication through new technologies, site visits, marketing, multilingual communication, management and Design as well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]