A Brief History of the Impoverished Culture of Architectural Research
This article was originally published by Common Edge as "The Confused and Impoverished State of Architectural Research."
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This article was originally published by Common Edge as "The Confused and Impoverished State of Architectural Research."For a discipline that thinks of itself as learned, scholarly research eludes the architectural profession. This is a long standing problem. ?Failure,? John Ruskin wrote in his 1848 introduction to The Seven Lamps of Architecture, ?is less frequently attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labor, than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.?Roughly 150 years later, Harry Nilsson?surely singing to architects?opined in his song, Joy that if you?re unable to find the answer to a question, you may not have a question worth asking (and probably don?t have a problem worth solving). In between Ruskin and rock and roll, is William Pen?a, the author of the architectural programming guide, Problem Seeking, who nearly a half-century ago wrote that ?you can?t solve a problem unless you know what it is.?For what it?s worth, architects and the academy agree on the need for research. The American Institute of Architects (AIA) calls it ?vital to project success.?  The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) recognizes ?the intimate relationship between research and design innovation.? The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture?s s...
Courtesy of Common Edge
This article was originally published by Common Edge as "The Confused and Impoverished State of Architectural Research."For a discipline that thinks of itself as learned, scholarly research eludes the architectural profession. This is a long standing problem. ?Failure,? John Ruskin wrote in his 1848 introduction to The Seven Lamps of Architecture, ?is less frequently attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labor, than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.?Roughly 150 years later, Harry Nilsson?surely singing to architects?opined in his song, Joy that if you?re unable to find the answer to a question, you may not have a question worth asking (and probably don?t have a problem worth solving). In between Ruskin and rock and roll, is William Pen?a, the author of the architectural programming guide, Problem Seeking, who nearly a half-century ago wrote that ?you can?t solve a problem unless you know what it is.?For what it?s worth, architects and the academy agree on the need for research. The American Institute of Architects (AIA) calls it ?vital to project success.?  The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) recognizes ?the intimate relationship between research and design innovation.? The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture?s s...
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