Definition
of Architectural Research is the
search for new knowledge and new ideas about the built environment. Research
can be conducted in a variety of sub disciplines, including building
technology, environment-behavior studies, history of architecture and computing
technology. (Ahrentzen, Betrabet, Dally Geboy, and Dearborn-Karan, 2001).
Groat
and Wang (2002, pp.6-7) repeat this definition that encompasses systematic inquiry
and new knowledge, and rightly acknowledge that the development of architecture
from earliest times has involved forms of research activity.
Building
as physical products of function in a number of independent but interactive
ways- they are structural entities, they act as environmental modifiers, they
function socially, culturally and economically. Each of these types of function
can be analyzed separately but the built form itself unifies and brings them
together in such a way that they interact.
Architectural research thus has to be conscious of these interactions
across traditionally separate intellectual fields.
Based
on these interactions, the scope of architectural research can be divided into
three stages:
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Architectural Processes
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Architectural Products
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Architectural Performances
