Murray Fraser

Design Research in Architecture

An Overview

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Produktbeschreibung

What is the role of design research in the types of insight and knowledge that architects create? That is the central question raised by this book. It acts as the introductory overview for Ashgate's major new series, 'Design Research in Architecture' which has been created in order to establish a firm basis for this emerging field of investigation within architecture. While there have been numerous architects-scholars since the Renaissance who have relied upon the interplay of drawings, models, textual analysis, intellectual ideas and cultural insights to scrutinise the discipline, nonetheless, until recently, there has been a reluctance within architectural culture to acknowledge and accept the role of design research as part of the discourse. However, in many countries around the world, one of the key changes in architecture and architectural education over the last decade has been the acceptance of design as a legitimate research area in its own right and this new series provides a forum where the best proponents of architectural design research can publish their work. This volume provides a broad overview on design research that supports and amplifies the different volumes coming out in the book series. It brings together leading architects and academics to discuss the more general issues involved in design research. At the end, there is an Indicative Bibliography which alludes to a long history of architectural books which can be seen as being in the spirit of design research.

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This volume provides a broad overview on design research that supports and amplifies the different volumes coming out in Ashgate's major new series, 'Design Research in Architecture'. It raises the central question - what is the role of design research in the types of insight and knowledge that architects create? and brings together leading architects and academics to discuss the more general issues involved in design research. At the end, there is an Indicative Bibliography which alludes to a long history of architectural books which can be seen as being in the spirit of design research.

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Produktdetails

• Design Research in Architecture
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 220mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 846g
• ISBN-13: 9781409462170
• ISBN-10: 140946217X
• Artikelnr.: 40498430

Autorenporträt

Murray Fraser is Professor of Architecture and Global Culture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College, London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction, Murray Fraser
Design research: the first 500 years, Jonathan Hill
An 'artificial' science of architecture, Philip Steadman
What if design practice matters?, Richard Blythe and Leon van Schaik
Design research and critical transformations: situating thought, projecting action, Katya Grillner
Design research: translating theory into practice, Shane Murray
A way with words: feminists writing architectural design research, Jane Rendell
This is research by design, Johan Verbeke
Space is not a thing, Leslie Kavanaugh
Even more than architecture, Richard Coyne
Returning Duchamp's urinal to the bathroom? On the reconnection between artistic experimentation, social responsibility and institutional transformation, Teddy Cruz
'A two-fold movement': design research as dialectical critical practice, Murray Fraser
Indicative bibliography
Index.