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Research paper thumbnail of Self-identity, rationalisation and cognitive dissonance in undergraduate architectural design learning

Architectural Research Quarterly, Jan 1, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of A Study of Classroom Response System Clickers: Increasing Student Engagement and Performance in a Large Undergraduate Lecture Class on Architectural  …

Journal of Interactive Learning Research, Jan 1, 2011

... classroom response system clickers: Increasing student engagement and performance in a large ... more ... classroom response system clickers: Increasing student engagement and performance in a large undergraduate lecture class on architectural research. ... ISSN 1093-023X Volume 22, Issue 1, 2011 Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) Chesapeake ...

Research paper thumbnail of Eco-Aesthetics: Bridging Architectural and Ecological Motivations

PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOLAR …, Jan 1, 2007

This paper argues for aesthetic principles that would bridge between purely ecological design mot... more This paper argues for aesthetic principles that would bridge between purely ecological design motivations and purely architectural ones. I will show that the rift between these two value spheres has explicit terms, but also that those explicit distinctions are in fact dialectical and complimentary forms of thought. Eco-aesthetics is thus proposed here as the bridge which weds the two. To construct this link, I will rely on two definitions of aesthetics as posed by the German philosopher Hans Georg Gadamer and the English philosopher and architectural aesthetician Roger Scrutton. Both of these definitions can be said to position aesthetics as the link between our appreciation of beauty and our intellectual understanding of it. In other words, they connect the real world with our quest for the ideal one. Applying these definitions to an abductive and hermeneutic process of reconciliation, I then propose a naturalistic basis of design as an eco-aesthetic that is rooted in our present understanding of cosmic truth: systems theory and complexity science.

Research paper thumbnail of The Teaching of Research and the Research on Teaching: Two Frameworks and Their Overlay in Architectural Education

Research paper thumbnail of Embracing complexity in building design

Embracing complexity in design, Jan 1, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Architecture and the four encounters with complexity

Architectural Engineering and Design …, Jan 1, 2008

... When Robert Venturi began writing Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture in 1962, Jane ... more ... When Robert Venturi began writing Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture in 1962, Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) was the subject of dinner-table conversation across the country. Apart ...

Research paper thumbnail of Spreadsheets for architects

An academic directory and search engine.

Research paper thumbnail of A Design Paradigm for Integrated Building Systems

Research paper thumbnail of Integrated buildings: the systems basis of architecture

Research paper thumbnail of Self-identity, rationalisation and cognitive dissonance in undergraduate architectural design learning

Architectural Research Quarterly, Jan 1, 2009

Research paper thumbnail of A Study of Classroom Response System Clickers: Increasing Student Engagement and Performance in a Large Undergraduate Lecture Class on Architectural  …

Journal of Interactive Learning Research, Jan 1, 2011

... classroom response system clickers: Increasing student engagement and performance in a large ... more ... classroom response system clickers: Increasing student engagement and performance in a large undergraduate lecture class on architectural research. ... ISSN 1093-023X Volume 22, Issue 1, 2011 Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) Chesapeake ...

Research paper thumbnail of Eco-Aesthetics: Bridging Architectural and Ecological Motivations

PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOLAR …, Jan 1, 2007

This paper argues for aesthetic principles that would bridge between purely ecological design mot... more This paper argues for aesthetic principles that would bridge between purely ecological design motivations and purely architectural ones. I will show that the rift between these two value spheres has explicit terms, but also that those explicit distinctions are in fact dialectical and complimentary forms of thought. Eco-aesthetics is thus proposed here as the bridge which weds the two. To construct this link, I will rely on two definitions of aesthetics as posed by the German philosopher Hans Georg Gadamer and the English philosopher and architectural aesthetician Roger Scrutton. Both of these definitions can be said to position aesthetics as the link between our appreciation of beauty and our intellectual understanding of it. In other words, they connect the real world with our quest for the ideal one. Applying these definitions to an abductive and hermeneutic process of reconciliation, I then propose a naturalistic basis of design as an eco-aesthetic that is rooted in our present understanding of cosmic truth: systems theory and complexity science.

Research paper thumbnail of The Teaching of Research and the Research on Teaching: Two Frameworks and Their Overlay in Architectural Education

Research paper thumbnail of Embracing complexity in building design

Embracing complexity in design, Jan 1, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Architecture and the four encounters with complexity

Architectural Engineering and Design …, Jan 1, 2008

... When Robert Venturi began writing Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture in 1962, Jane ... more ... When Robert Venturi began writing Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture in 1962, Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) was the subject of dinner-table conversation across the country. Apart ...

Research paper thumbnail of Spreadsheets for architects

An academic directory and search engine.

Research paper thumbnail of A Design Paradigm for Integrated Building Systems

Research paper thumbnail of Integrated buildings: the systems basis of architecture

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