Design Research in Architecture: An Overview edited by Murray Fraser

摘要

The question of design research in architecture, a discipline that is largely perceived as a professionally regulated discipline, is a contested territory by the authors in the book Design Research in Architecture: An Overview. The book compares design research to research in other traditional academic subjects such as the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences that have produced well-defined and accepted methodologies. The authors from the UK, Australia, the Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium and the USA are leading academics able to write with confidence and to open up debates and thinking against research dominated by scientific objectivity or technocracy. Together with five other volumes included in the Ashgate book series Design Research in Architecture, it offers a variety of key exemplars in the subject. A total of 12 chapters are presented by architects and theorists, together with an introduction by editor Murray Fraser, and these discuss a wide range and diverse modes of what design research in architecture can be, how architectural design research can be pursued and how design research can be related to work in architectural practices.