Research vs. Design. A Favorable Conflict

When we look at research in the field of architectural design, we meet, from the very beginning, complicated questions and very few practical instructions and solutions. An open question, treated in many different conferences and texts, it is clearly described by Marc Belderbos and Johan Verbeke, in the Call for Papers for “The unthinkable doctorate” (2005, 14): «Most doctorates in architecture are developed within the so-called architectural sciences, that is in history and historiography, theory, monographs on architects, or further into other sciences ‘of architecture’, where architecture becomes the object of investigation.