Inside looking out: a framework for discussing the question of architectural design doctorates

Florinel Radu, Workshop on Doctoral Education in Architecture, ITU 28-29 November 2011

Inside looking out: a framework for discussing the question of

architectural design doctorates From informal to formal research

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or or or or

Academic Scientific Fundamental researchTheoretical

Professional Artistic Practical Applied research

Doctoral Education in Architecture. Bottlenecks:

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Florinel Radu, Workshop on Doctoral Education in Architecture, ITU 28-29 November 2011

Professional Artistic Practical Applied research

Academic Scientific Fundamental researchTheoretical

and and and and

Doctoral Education in Architecture. A plea for an inclusive vision :

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Tool Result ServiceHidden

Method Process Transparent Fundamental / applied research

Architectural Design: from service to research

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ArchPractice

Other fieldseducation, practice,

research

ArchEducation

Arch Research

ArchDArchD

MArch

BArch

ArchD : an opportunity to improve the practice of architecture

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MArch

BArch

ArchPractice

Other fieldseducation, practice,

research

ArchEducation

Arch Research

ArchDSelf-reflective

ArchD : three aims = three types

Didactic

Interface

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Arch Practice

Other fields

Arch ResearchArchD

Interface ArchD

Architectural designconnected to theories and practicesDiscursive Practice

Processual Interdisciplinary practice

Transgressive Architectural designgenerating peripheral knowledge

Arch Education

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Arch Practice

Other fields

Arch ResearchArchD

Interface ArchD

Architectural designconnected to theories and practicesDiscursive Practice

Processual Interdisciplinary practice

Transgressive Architectural designgenerating peripheral knowledge

Arch Education

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Arch Practice

Other fields

Arch ResearchArchD

Interface ArchD

Processual Interdisciplinary practice

Transgressive Architectural designgenerating peripheral knowledge

Arch Education

Interdisciplinary research on sustainable quarters

(architecture, environment, economy, sociology)

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Arch Education

ArchD

Didactic ArchD

Architectural designconnected to pedagogical capacitiesFormative

Conversion Architectural knowledge into educational content

Innovative New ways of learning architectural design

Arch PracticeArch Research

Other fields

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Visionary New questions and a new context of interpretation

SimulatedExploration of architectural themes within a virtual context

Arch Practice

ArchD

Self-reflective ArchD

‘Real environment’ as a laboratoryQuestioning

Arch EducationArch Research

Other fields

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Arch EducationOther fields

Visionary New questions and a new context of interpretation

SimulatedExploration of architectural themes within a virtual context

Arch Practice

ArchD

Self-reflective ArchD

‘Real environment’ as a laboratoryQuestioning

Arch Research

« I accept only the demands that have a meaning, a social or cultural interest and that fit to the site. »

« I am not ready to execute a pre-established brief. »

(Peter Zumthor, interview Le Temps, 2011)

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To provide the candidate with a basic research education with broad insight into specific theories and methods

To develop the ability to undertake independent research work

To provide the candidate with skills to develop a research design environment

To provide the candidate with training in communicating and disseminating professional insight and reasoning.

Aims of doctorates: a parallelism of scientific and architectural design

research

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BArch

MArch

Practice

MArch

BArch

Practice

PhD & ArchD : a link in the chain of professional training of scientists and of architects as researchers

accumulation of generic knowledge

accumulation of specific knowledge

ArchR

ArchD acquisition of research abilities

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ArchD:What part is individual and what part is collaborative?

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