Book
Architectural Methodology
(2017)
Abstract
Architecture is a multifaceted discipline. To some it is a socio-cultural object, to some, it is a physical object with much consideration on environmental issues, to some it is an image making element, to some architecture is about cognitive issues, to some it is a business-oriented venture, while there are others who consider it as a mixture of them. While we cannot ignore the existence of all of them dominant in architecture, we can argue that a particular perspective can provide deeper insight into the particular issue. Specific methods can be applied to investigate those issues individually without ignoring the others. Therefore, architectural methods have a very wide range. This book consists of five chapters that address few of them. It is a joint venture by the faculty staffs of the Department of Architecture, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), where they have shared their expertise and interests on methods that can be used in Architecture. This book is consequently titled as ‘Architectural Methodology’. The five chapters were arranged in a sequence. The first chapter that searched for the symbolic meaning of built forms considered architecture as a cultural object, while the second chapter that evaluated thermal comfort of buildings considered architecture as a physical object and tangible part of the built environment. The third chapter considered architecture as a cognitive process rather than demanding it to be as a mere product. While these three chapters discussed methods of perceiving architecture from three different ontological perspectives, chapter four and five attempted slightly different approaches to investigate architectural methods. Chapter four tried to capture methods of presenting architecture from the context of design studio, which is the baking point of all ideas; while chapter five considered architecture as a part of a macro urban environment. In a way, the first three chapters can be complemented with the latter two chapters that provided the visible physical boundary that starts from where architecture is born to where they ultimately belong in the bigger context of the civilization of this world.
Disciplines
Publication Date
Spring March 1, 2017
Editor
Tareef Hayat Khan
Publisher
UTM Press
ISBN
978-983-52-1513-1
Citation Information
Tareef Khan. Architectural Methodology. (2017) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/tareef-khan/5/