Nowadays Computer Aided Architectural Design (CAAD) undoubtedly is recognized as a design media rather than a design tool and is widely accepted in architectural practice. The general goal architects want is to visually express design and illustrate their projects or ideas using both professional experience and personal computerized creative skills. Currently rapid advancements in the growth of information technology which are used to communicate architectural design projects. CAAD is a particularly dynamic field that is developing through the actions of architects, software developers, researchers, technology, users and society alike. The paper deals with the teaching of information technology in architectural schools. The delivery of CAAD knowledge is discussed. Academic courses basically are about the development of computer aided creative and problem solving skills in context with fast changing CAAD media. It is more difficult to teach the common principles behind the software which are general and will most likely survive everchanging software versions. Limited credit points for the subjects do not allow developing detailed courses for training particular software. An evaluation of the promptitude of the architectural students at Riga Technical University for the self-sufficient problem solving tasks was performed. Four different computer based design tasks were given to the students using the same massing model of building. The statistical analysis regarding an average time required to complete the exercises and correlations between different skills is presented at the conclusion. Further developments of architectural problem solving are discussed for implementation into the education system