Katharina Voigt (Edited by)
Katharina Voigt studied architecture in Hamburg, Munich, and Stockholm. She worked for Stölken Schmidt Architekten BDA in Hamburg and Heim Kuntscher Architekten und Stadtplaner BDA in Munich. She researches and teaches at the Chair of Architectural Design and Conception, at the Technical University of Munich. Her research focuses on transdisciplinary investigations of architecture, highlighting the lived experience as significant for the anticipation of architectural design, and investigating the integration of sensuality and bodily knowledge in architectural research. Her doctorate on dance practices as a medium and tool of architectural experience, research, and design is associated with the doctoral program Epistemologies of Aesthetic Practices at the Collegium Helveticum. She is a founder and member of the advisory board for »Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge«.


Uta Graff (Edited by)
Uta Graff (Prof.) holds the Chair of Architectural Design and Conception at Technische Universität München. In addition to her professional practice she was a research assistant at Universität der Künste Berlin, where she also taught at the Studio for Sound Art and Sound Research. In her research and teaching she emphasizes the processes of architectural design as systematic approaches to knowledge creation, stressing methodological approaches original to the discipline of architecture.


Ferdinand Ludwig (Edited by)
Ferdinand Ludwig is a professor for green technologies in landscape architecture at the Technische Universität München. His work focusses on growth and decay, chance and probability in living architecture and landscape design. He studied architecture and completed his doctorate studies at the Universität Stuttgart. He is a partner in the office »ludwig.schönle: Baubotanik - Architecture - Urbanism«.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 3
Editorial 7
Research Perspectives in Architecture 11
Introduction 21
Collage-Based Research and Design 25
Embodied Knowledge, Tool, and Sketch: Intuitive Production of Knowledge in Architectural Design 37
Data-Driven Research on Ecological Prototypes for Green Architecture: Enabling Urban Intensification and Restoration through Agricultural Hybrids 47
Reflexions on the Plurality of Methods in Architecture 55
Introduction 63
Reflexive, Reflexivity, and the Concept of Reflexive Design 67
Architecture Schools and Their Relationship with Research: It's Complicated 77
Thinking the Transformative 85
Introduction 95
Research through Design under Systematic Quality Criteria: Methodology and Teaching Research 99
Architects as Public Intellectuals: How Far Beyond Can We Go? 111
Playing Seriously: An Introduction to Corporeal Architecture, Neuroscience, and Performance Art 119
Introduction 129
These Are Only Hints and Guesses 133
Corporeality of Architecture Experience 139
Researching Non-Conscious Dimensions of Architectural Experience 149
Introduction 159
What the Files Reveal: Making Everyday Architecture Talk 163
Architectural Drawings: Teaching and Understanding a Visual Discipline 173
Archives, Bureaucracies, Architecture: Now You See Me, Now You Don't 181
Introduction 187
Research / Design and Academia 191
What is Architectural Psychology? 201
On the Entanglement between Sociology and Architecture in Spatial Research 209
Reflection 223
Contributors 233
Biographies 237