The role of material evidence in architectural research: Drawings, Models, Experiments

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    Abstract

    The following texts explore the production of knowledge in architectural research. Focussing on a wide definition of practice led research, the aim for these texts is to discuss how the practices of architectural design; drawing, modelling, prototyping and building embody a particular set of knowledges that inform architectural thinking. Architectural reflection is allied with it media. It is through the drawing, the model and the built that architecture is conceived and developed. In practice based research working through design means reflecting through the production of material evidence in its various forms. Our query is to explore how the material evidence resulting of these practices come to contain knowledge - how are they produced, what knowledge do they embody, what are their intersections and by what means and methods can they be evaluated?

    The texts assembled here are deliberately wide apart. Spanning between the highly speculative and the pragmatic, our aim is to suggest that practice based methods are used across all forms of architectural thinking. Where the structure of the book suggests a divide between the conceiving and the realisation of architecture, what we hope emerges are the fundamental crossovers between these practices. What we see here is that drawing is as much a practice of theoretical reflection as one of detailing, prototyping as much one of physical as conceptual testing.
    Original languageDanish
    Place of PublicationKøbenhavn
    PublisherThe Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation
    Number of pages144
    ISBN (Print)9788778302779
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Nov 2011

    Artistic research

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