Emerging research agendas in architecture:
Design Research
Workshop Report

Mike Martin, PhD, FAIA,
University of California, Berkeley (Lead)
Mardelle McCuskey Shepley, DArch, AIA,
AIA Texas A & M University
David Watkins, FAIA,
Watkins Hamilton Ross Architects Inc.
Carol Burns, AIA,
Taylor & Burns
Marshall Purnell, FAIA,
Devrouax + Purnell Architects and Planners PC

Mike Martin:
Our discussions were very broad and wide, but I think there are some things that came out of our discussion that are important to share with you.

We started with the intention of actually following the format about design that is connected with research. Is design a form of research or is research a framework for informing design? What is it we need if we are at a research design complex entity and we're concerned about creating new knowledge? What does it really mean to create new knowledge? We tried framing this in a form of language that might make sense. So we articulated four or five kinds of things that we thought were really important. Things that, if we are going to talk about creating new knowledge, we have to really begin to think about in relationship to design.

The first is that we really need to know what you will be able to decide whatever you're doing in the context of that kind of condition. If you want the traditional model, that is something to consider. That might be design to research or something like that. Well, you do want to say it that way. But, it is about decision in the work in context so you know what you're asking to put into. 

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