Cumincad : CUMINCAD Papers : Paper 4d3b:Puzzle-Making : What Architects Do When No One is Looking

authors

Archea, John

year

1987

title

Puzzle-Making : What Architects Do When No One is Looking

source

New York: Wiley-Interscience, 1987. pp. 37-52. includes bibliography

summary

The thesis of this paper is that architects work in a manner that is antithetical to problem-solving because they cannot explicate desired effects prior to their realization through the design process. In an attempt to clarify architecture's uncommon mode of action the author suggests that instead of specifying what they are trying to accomplish prior to their attempts to accomplish it as problem-solver do, architects treat design as a search for the most appropriate effects that can be attained in a unique context. They seek sets of combinatorial rules that will result in an internally consistent fit between a kit of parts and the effects that are achieved when those parts are assembled in a certain way

keywords

puzzle making, problem solving, architecture, design process

series

CADline

references

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