Creative Practice Inquiry in Architecture

This collection explores architectural knowledge, showcasing how architects can use their skills to advance professional insight and contribute to society, culture, and scholarship. It mobilizes architectural ways of knowing and working as tools for research, engaging with other disciplines and practices. Chapters offer insights into incipient modes and tools of architectural research, as well as emerging ethical, practical, and philosophical positions. It is a valuable resource for students, practitioners, and academics interested in design research.

Format: Hardback
Length: 282 pages
Publication date: 03 October 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This collection presents, illustrates, and advances novel ideas about creative practice inquiry in architecture. It explores architectural knowledge, emphasizing how architects can leverage their unique skills, habits, and values to enhance professional insight and contribute to society, culture, and scholarship. It demonstrates how architectural ways of knowing and working can be mobilized as research tools.

Collected here are a series of creative practices that originate from architecture and actively engage with other fields and methods, transcending the boundaries of the academic landscape. Architectural inquiries presented in this book delve into matters that go beyond the conventional expectations, conventions, and defaults of the discipline. Drawing, borrowing, adapting, dramatizing, perhapsing, monstering, experimenting, cartooning—the tools and methods employed in each inquiry vary, yet they all share a common outward gaze, engaging architectural ways of knowing with other disciplines and practices, including the arts, biological sciences, ethnography, and technology.

Chapters included in this volume provide insights not only into emerging modes and tools of architectural research but also into emerging ethical, practical, and philosophical positions intricately linked to the creative practices involved. By setting out the concept of creative practice inquiry in architecture, this innovative volume makes a lively and valuable contribution to the growing body of work on design as research. It will appeal to:

Students eager to pursue architectural ways of thinking and writing;
Practitioners seeking to utilize their distinctive professional abilities to contribute to architectural and scholarly knowledge; and
Academics and doctoral candidates interested in engaging with the burgeoning scholarly field.

Weight: 689g
Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032004655