Please share with your friends, let's read it!! Search Ebook here:. Book Preface A practical guide to research-just for architects From searching for the best glass to prevent glare to determining how clients might react to color choice for restaurant walls, research is a crucial tool that architects must master in order to effectively address the technical, aesthetic, and behavioral issues that arise in their work.
A scientific approach to architectural and architectonic research from the scope of just one discipline is no longer sufficient. With contemporary considerations such as behavior, health, and environmental protection, architects and students alike need holistic research methodologies that incorporate qualitative elements as well as more traditional quantitative ones.
Research Methods and Techniques in Architecture examines research methodologies and tools applied in science and architectonic practice. This article presents some of the contemporary ideas developed within the aesthetics of architecture and the aesthetics of the city.
The aim is to show a continuation from the aesthetic interest in the architectural form to the aesthetic interest which has the urban form in its focus. This is done through the notion of the human environment, which has been notably present in the philosophical study of environmental aesthetics since the s.
The article is by no means a conclusive representation of the complex relationship between the aesthetics of architecture and the aesthetics of the city but instead, it is an attempt to further the discussion by bringing up some interesting and vital developments in both areas.
The underlying intention is to bring forth the study of urban aesthetics by making clearer how it is positioned in relation to an aesthetic interest in architecture and human environments at large.
Since , Iaspisi? Itself an example of applied critical thinking and experimental tactics, the process behind the DESIGN ACT project is considered as a curatorial, participatory and open-ended activity. DESIGN ACT has developed through a website with an online archive; public seminars; presentations and an international network of practitioners, theoreticians and curators.
The book is organized around three sections: i? Related Topics. Architectural History. Follow Following. Architectural Theory. Urban Design. Architectural Education. History of architecture. Urban Studies. Our intent is to be comprehensive by providing a single text that addresses the full range of research methods available and applicable to the diverse array of topics germane to architectural research.
Our intent is also to offer an entry point by introducing readers to the major characteristics and applications of each research method, while simultaneously providing references to more specific books and articles on the methods of interest.
This overarching goal, as articulated in the introduction to the first edition of this book, remains a constant. However, both the nature and role of architectural research, as conducted in the academy and practice, have gradually shifted over the decade since the first edition was published in
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