The Tacit Dimension: Architecture Knowledge and Scientific Research - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9462702713 ISBN 13 : 9789462702714

Editeur : Leuven University Press, 2021

Synopsis

In architecture, tacit knowledge plays a substantial role in both the design process and its reception. The essays in this book explore the tacit dimension of architecture in its aesthetic, material, cultural, design-based, and reflexive understanding of what we build. Tacit knowledge, described in 1966 by Michael Polanyi as what we ‘can know but cannot tell’, often denotes knowledge that escapes quantifiable dimensions of research. Much of architecture’s knowledge resides beneath the surface, in nonverbal instruments such as drawings and models that articulate the spatial imagination of the design process.

Awareness of the tacit dimension helps to understand the many facets of the spaces we inhabit, from the ideas of the architect to the more hidden assumptions of our cultures. Beginning in the studio, where students are guided into becoming architects, the book follows a path through the tacit knowledge present in materials, conceptual structures, and the design process, revealing how the tacit dimension leads to craftsmanship and the situated knowledge of architecture-in-the-world.

Lara Schrijver is Professor of Architecture Theory at the University of Antwerp, Faculty of Design Sciences.

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Lara Schrijver is professor of architecture theory at the University of Antwerp, Faculty of Design Sciences.

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In architecture, tacit knowledge plays a substantial role in both the design process and its reception. The essays in this book explore the tacit dimension of architecture in its aesthetic, material, cultural, design-based, and reflexive understanding of what we build. Tacit knowledge, described in 1966 by Michael Polanyi as what we ‘can know but cannot tell’, often denotes knowledge that escapes quantifiable dimensions of research. Much of architecture’s knowledge resides beneath the surface, in nonverbal instruments such as drawings and models that articulate the spatial imagination of the design process.

Awareness of the tacit dimension helps to understand the many facets of the spaces we inhabit, from the ideas of the architect to the more hidden assumptions of our cultures. Beginning in the studio, where students are guided into becoming architects, the book follows a path through the tacit knowledge present in materials, conceptual structures, and the design process, revealing how the tacit dimension leads to craftsmanship and the situated knowledge of architecture-in-the-world.

Lara Schrijver is Professor of Architecture Theory at the University of Antwerp, Faculty of Design Sciences.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Leuven University Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9462702713
• ISBN 13: 9789462702714
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 130
• Éditeur: Schrijver Lara
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