Composing Images Architectural Montage as Design-Driven Research Tool

The relationship between design and research is a lively debate in our discipline. In my opinion, this relationship is something we all have to work on in order to broaden the scope of our discipline. There is no research without design, and there is no design without research.

As it is already written in this paper, the main goal of this research project is to propose a new seeing of architectural montage which is strongly motivated by the framework of the newly formed field of study in research by design community - design-driven research. Architectural montage is used in this research to deliver answers in the same way as any classical analytical method would. With the implementation of design into our research framework, for the first time, we actually have a chance to use skills that we have finely developed through our architectural education. Design-driven research teaches us how to value design thinking and design methodology as research and represents the combination of intuition and science, as Kieran underlines: “research brings science to our art. . . . To move the art of architecture forward, however, we need to supplement intuition with science.” In conclusion, the biggest advantage that newly formed design-driven research field offers is the synthesis of generative processes with analytical and systematic processes.