the Need for a Comprehensive Design Methodology: Epistemological Perspective | ||
| ERJ. Engineering Research Journal | ||
| Article 14, Volume 25, Issue 3, July 2002, Pages 287-304 PDF (413.5 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/erjm.2002.70929 | ||
| Author | ||
| Mahmoud Ahmed Zaki | ||
| Associated Professor of Architecture Faculty of Eng. Tanta Univ. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This paper argues the expediency and need for a comprehensive design methodology to be introduced not only to the context ofknowledge- based CAAD, but also to the contexts of design philosophy and theory of architectural Design. The ultimate purpose of the comprehensive design methodology is to produce design descriptions as large systems rather than to increase our understanding about how the design reasoning could be accomplished in a harmonic and orchestralizational whole through different levels of abstraction. Then , this study discusses such philosophic and theoretical foundations about the ambiguity of absolute design truth and relativity of design knowledge in order to recognize and extract the main features of the design knowledge . Furthermore, this study controverts the design theorization versus the design modelling aiming at looking for the most convenient intellectual human activity by which the comprehensive design methodology could be configured. Finally, An epistemological design approach is proposed and discussed through a proposed group of theoretical and philosophic hypotheses. Virtually, all the proposed philosophic and theoretical hypotheses, this study introduces and considers, could be become a subject of some contention. This is because, it is not possible to prove that they are correct. Consequently, they are assumed to be correct or at least " appropriate " enough for design context until they will be refuted by new future empirical evidences, or superseded by more consistent profound ones. They are just an admissible contribution to the design context. | ||
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