scholarly journals Architectural research and disciplinarity

2004 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Rendell
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Research Assessment ◽  
Research Assessment Exercise ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
Architecture And Design ◽  
Architectural Research

There are at present considerable concerns with how architectural research will be assessed in the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) of 2008. In RAE 2001, most architectural research was submitted to one of three Units of Assessment (UoA): 33 Built Environment, 60 History of Art, Architecture and Design, and 64 Art and Design. There were subtle, but important, differences in output definition and assessment criteria between UoA 33 and UoA 64 with respect to practice-led research. Most importantly, in UoA 33 practice-led outputs were accepted by the panel, but only as publications, whereas UoA 64 assessed practice-led research outputs accompanied by a 300-word statement that clarified the contributions of that particular research to the development of original knowledge in the field. The diversity of methods and complexity of output types, combined with the composition of UoA 33, led to results that many feel did not properly reflect the strengths of architectural design, particularly practice-led research. This methodology essentially disenfranchised a significant part of the community from the rae process to the detriment not only of the community, but to the credibility of the process itself.

scholarly journals Theory and practice

2004 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-99
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Research Assessment ◽  
Research Assessment Exercise ◽  
Recent Conference ◽  
Architectural Research

With the UK's 2008 Research Assessment Exercise looming, we make no apologies for publishing a further exploration of the nature of architectural research. In her paper (pp141–147), Jane Rendell makes a lucid and persuasive case that design is a complex interdisciplinary activity that sits uneasily within current definitions of research. For Rendell, architectural design, just as much as writing, can be practised as a form of criticism, a proposition that was explored at ‘Critical Architecture’, the recent conference at the Bartlett School in London (pp105–108).

Words and Pictures

1997 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 51-76
Author(s):  
John Hyman
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Eighth Century ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Research Assessment ◽  
Research Assessment Exercise ◽  
Precise Understanding ◽  
History Of ◽  
Theological Controversy ◽  
The Mind

Pictures have always played a prominent role in philosophical speculation about the mind, but the concept of a picture has itself been the object of philosophical scrutiny only intermittently. As a matter of fact, it was studied most intensively in the course of a theological controversy in the Eastern Roman Empire, during the eighth century - which is a sufficient indication of its marginal place in the history of philosophy. Perhaps this is because pictures have never produced in us the theoretical paralysis which Augustine famously associated with time, but have on the contrary generally seemed too unproblematic to deserve much time from philosophers. Even today, after several decades of accumulating theory, philosophers with no stake in the matter are often impervious to its charm. I feel some sympathy for this attitude, because the task of explaining the nature of depiction is, I believe, one which calls for the refinement rather than refutation of our first thoughts about it. But a precise understanding of depiction is both a necessary prolegomenon to a significant part of aesthetics, and a useful prophylactic against confusion in the theory of the imagination. Besides, there is also the pleasure of the chase, which J. L. Austin nonchalantly appealed to many years before the Research Assessment Exercise was inaugurated.

Architectural research and its enemies

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Macmillan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Architectural Education ◽  
Research Assessment ◽  
Research Assessment Exercise ◽  
Consultation Process ◽  
Research Excellence Framework ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Architectural Research ◽  
Competitive Allocation ◽  
Support Research

Like the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) that preceded it, the UK government's proposed Research Excellence Framework (REF) is a means of allocating funding in higher education to support research. As with any method for the competitive allocation of funds it creates winners and losers and inevitably generates a lot of emotion among those rewarded or penalised. More specifically, the ‘winners’ tend to approve of the method of allocation and the ‘losers’ denigrate it as biased against their activities and generally unfair. An extraordinary press campaign has been consistently waged against research assessment and its methods by those involved in architectural education, which I will track over a decade and a half. What follows will question whether this campaign demonstrates the sophistication and superior judgment of those who have gone into print, or conversely whether its mixture of misinformation and disinformation reveals not just disenchantment and prejudice, but a naivety and a depth of ignorance about the fundamentals of research that is deeply damaging to the credibility of architecture as a research-based discipline. With the recent consultation process towards a new cycle of research assessment, the REF, getting under way, I aim to draw attention to the risk of repeating past mistakes.

Research Assessment: a flawed exercise. Stirling's work: variable and vainglorious. Undermining the profession

2002 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-10
Author(s):  
Christine Hawley
Keyword(s):  
Research Assessment ◽  
Architectural Theory ◽  
Research Assessment Exercise ◽  
Architectural Research

The demise of architecture schools in the latest Research Assessment Exercise (RAE)will have caught the attention of every architect working in one of the UK's research-led universities (arq 5/4, p 291 ). The debate about architectural theory, its definition and application into practice is complex, diverse and sometimes contentious. Within universities where research success is at the heart of their culture, architectural ‘research’ does not necessarily follow conventional protocols or manifest itself in the refereed journals ubiquitous in other disciplines. But should it be any less valued because its output does not conventionally fall into one of those standardized categories?

Research assessment under the microscope: disturbing findings and distorting effects

2002 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 203-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Steadman ◽  
Bill Hillier
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Research Assessment ◽  
Research Assessment Exercise ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
University Department ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The Web

The Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) to which every research-active UK university department has to submit every five years has fundamental resourcing implications for teaching and research – and thus, in the case of architecture, for the profession itself. Within the RAE, Architecture has always sat uneasily in a Built Environment ‘unit of assessment’ which appears to be dominated by construction and surveying – an unrepresentative state of affairs which can no longer be ignored. Leaders and letters in recent issues of arq (5/4, 6/1 and 2) have revealed the deep unease with which the results of the latest Exercise have been received. Now that full details of all RAE submissions have been published on the Web (www.hero.ac.uk/rae/ under ‘Submissions’), a fully informed analysis is at last possible. This article has been written in the light of this latest information.

The role and impact of politics on the Art of Pakistan for undergraduates

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 01-17
Author(s):  
Alia Hadi Ali
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Political Influence ◽  
Graduate Level ◽  
Second Keyword ◽  
First Keyword ◽  
Art Students ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government

There was a quantitative research done on role and impact of politics on the Art of Pakistan. Art students have an introduction to political scenario affecting art. The target audience chosen were the undergraduates of Art and Design College Punjab University and National College of Arts in Lahore. This paper works as a parameter. The students are aware that Art can be influenced, moulded and reface with political influence. The selected audience is going to get affected by the policies and commandment of political structure which is present and affecting all professions of Pakistan. After the survey forms were filled by the student of bought institutions,the results of both institutions were compared. Furthermore, this paper helps in adding topics taught in the history of Art in graduate level in a way that what are the circumstances which can be requested by the government to look upon for the promotion of Art.Keywords: First keyword, second keyword, third keyword, forth keyword;

Model Operations: Morphogenesis and the Design Process

2021 ◽  
pp. 602-626
Author(s):  
Carolin Höfler
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Reciprocal Relationship ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
Responsive Materials ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Architecture ◽  
Generative Algorithms ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Structural Architecture ◽  
Architecture And Design

Abstract Since the emergence of digital design techniques in combination with so-called responsive materials, the concept of organic forms in architecture seems to be gaining a new quality. The resemblance to an organism should no longer apply only superficially but be inscribed in the materiality as well as in the history of origin and functioning. This article addresses these new transformative effects between architecture and biology. They are presented primarily in relation to the structural architecture of the 1960s and the computational architectural systems since the 1990s. One focus of architecture is on dynamic forms that adapt themselves to their environment by means of flexible materials and generative algorithms. Here, architecture as technically animated matter no longer involuntarily competes with creative nature but is seen as part of a reciprocal relationship. This reciprocal relationship is specified by recourse to various architectural models. The models’ approaches suggest that organic-looking forms are generated by simulated biological processes. The article examines this claim of the models from the perspective of the history of architecture and design. It shows how, since the mid-twentieth century, a renewal of architectural design practice has been sought by reformulating morphological questions at the intersection of biological and cybernetic discourses.

Ideals and ideas

2002 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 195-195
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Architectural Education ◽  
Research Assessment ◽  
Education Funding ◽  
Higher Education Funding ◽  
Research Assessment Exercise ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Uk Higher Education

Most architectural education takes place within a university context. There are very considerable advantages to such an arrangement but, for a discipline as broadly based and practically orientated as architecture, there can also be occasional problems if aspects are inappropriately managed. Anyone who doubts this should read Philip Steadman and Bill Hillier's review of the Built Environment category of the UK Higher Education Funding Council's (HEFCE) 2001 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) (pp. 203–207).

Is the RIBA taking research seriously? At long last, it looks as if it is

2003 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-106
Keyword(s):  
Initial Response ◽  
Research Assessment ◽  
Research Assessment Exercise ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Architectural Research ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time ◽  
As If

The repercussions of the results of the UK Government's highly controversial 2000 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) for architecture (arq 6/3, pp 203–207) continue to resonate. But this time the university architecture schools are not alone. For the first time ever, the RIBA, recognizing the seriousness of the situation for the profession, is giving architectural research the attention it deserves. Jack Pringle is masterminding the Institute's response. In late September, arq reminded him of his initial response to the RAE debacle (arq 6/3, pp 197–198), and asked him about current developments.

Three views on the RAE Design and the computer. RAE 1: a tool for fragmentation

2002 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 292-296
Author(s):  
Richard Coyne
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Panel Member ◽  
Research Assessment ◽  
Research Assessment Exercise ◽  
History Of ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University ◽  
History Of Engineering

I read with interest the detailed arguments presented by our colleagues at the Bartlett, complaining of the treatment of architecture by Unit of Assessment (UoA) panel 33 (arq 6/3, pp203–207). We and our colleagues from other disciplines at the University of Edinburgh were shocked at Architecture's Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) result. We had been confident of at least a 4, but were awarded a 3a. We spent a disappointing day with the architectural historian on the panel to ascertain how we could have been so wrong in the internal estimation of our rating. I also had private discussions with another architectural panel member. Those on the panel we spoke to seemed to know little about our work. Our portfolios of refereed designs were not called for. It seems that our groundbreaking books linking the history of engineering and architecture were too far removed from what engineers usually do, and were not rated. Our books and articles on theories of design and information technology seem to have been of no interest.

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