By Henry Plummer
Shaker constructions have lengthy been favourite for his or her simplicity of layout and durable craftsmanship, with shape constantly following functionality. through the years, their certain actual features have invited as a lot research as imitation. Their fresh, unadorned traces were stated to mirror middle Shaker ideals reminiscent of honesty, integrity, purity, and perfection. during this publication, Henry Plummer specializes in using common gentle in Shaker structure, noting that Shaker developers manipulated mild not just for sensible purposes of illumination but additionally to sculpt a intentionally non secular, visible presence inside of their area. Stillness and light-weight celebrates this subtly appealing element of Shaker innovation and development, captured in additional than a hundred beautiful images.
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It is the connections, not what is connected, that signifies a strategy. Better understanding of what is connected and why it is significantly connected is the goal of inquiry – the goal toward which the three strategies offer alternative approaches. As connections are explored in research, the inquiry becomes progressively more tactical and may involve a wide variety of particular methods and techniques that are shared by different investigators. Indeed, the strategies guide the use of methods and techniques that may be common to many or all forms of design and design research.
Researchers from psychology or computer science, for example, have tended to assume that there is ‘nothing special’ about design as an activity for investigation, that it is just another form of ‘problem solving’ or ‘information processing’. However, developments in artificial intelligence and other computer modelling in design have perhaps served mainly to demonstrate just how high-level and complex is the cognitive ability of designers, and how much more research is needed to understand it. Better progress seems to be made by designer-researchers, and for this reason the recent growth of conferences, workshops and symposia, featuring a new generation of designer-researchers, is proving extremely useful in developing the methodology of design research.
34] He found many similarities in their ways of working, and also some differences. For example, some of the architects prefer to generate a range of alternative solution concepts, while others will focus on a narrow range or just one concept. Something they all seem to have is an ability to work along ‘parallel lines of thought’ – that is, to maintain an openness, even an ambiguity, about features and aspects of the design at different levels of detail, and to consider these levels simultaneously, as the designing proceeds.