Required reading
Leezenberg, Michiel en Gerard de Vries, Wetenschapsfilosofie voor de Geesteswetenschappen. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2001). Inleiding, pp.11-30.
Varnelis, Kazys. ‘Is there research in the studio?’ Journal of Architectural Education. Vol. 61, issue 1 (2007) pp. 11-14.
Yeomans, David, ‘Can Design be Called Research?’, arq, vol. 1, no. 1, 1995, pp. 12–15.
Recommended reading
Bannister, Turpin. ‘The Research Heritage of the Architectural Profession’, Journal of Architectural Education, vol. 1, Architectural Research, Spring 1947, pp. 5-12.
Cross, Nigel. Designerly Ways of Knowing
Cunningham, Allen. "Notes on Education and Research in Architecture." The Journal of Architecture 10, no. 4 (2005): 415-41.
Davis, Meredith. “Why Do We Need Doctoral Study in Design?” International Journal of Design, 2(3) (2008), 71-79.
Dorst, Kees. Describing Design: a Comparison of Paradigms, PhD Dissertation, Delft University of Technology, 1997.
Dorst Kees, The problem of design problems – problem solving and design expertise, Journal of design research, vol 4, issue 2, 2004
Gero, John S., Computational Models of Innovative and Creative Design Processes, Technological Forecasting and Social Change 64, 183–196 (2000)
Groat, Linda and David Wang, Architectural Research Methods
de Jong, Taeke. Ways to study research and design
Kroes, Peter, Design methodology and the nature of technical artifacts, Design Studies Vol. 23 No. 3 (2002): 287-302
Kuhn, Thomas, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 3rd edition, Chicago: University Of Chicago, 1996
Rendell, Jane. 'Architectural Research and Disciplinarity’, (2004), ARQ, v. 8, n. 4, pp. 141–7.
Schön, Donald A. The Reflective Practitioner : How Professionals Think in Action. New York: Basic Books, 1983.
Short, A., ‘What is “Architectural Design Research”?’, Building Research and Information, vol. 36, no. 2 (2008): 195–99
Simon, Herbert, The Sciences of the Artificial, 3rd edition, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 1996.
Till, Jeremy ‘Architectural Research: Three Myths and One Model’, accessed online at:
Snow, C.P. The Two Cultures and a Second Look. Cambridge University Press, 1965. (contains the original text of The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959) and a retrospective text from 1965)
