Time  

17:00, Wednesday 25 May 2023 (China)

10:00, Wednesday 25 May 2023 (UK) 

Zoom

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2121068888?pwd=akRaVXFmck9aRG52cnh2akVrQmxrdz09

Speaker

Professor Murray Fraser 

University College London

Abstract

In this lecture, I will look into the historical background of the concept of design research in architecture, and then discuss how we understand the term today. Four key questions will be addressed in particular. How can we conceptualise different kinds of research within architecture? In what ways does design research relate to the other research disciplines in architecture? When and why did design research emerge as a distinctive methodological approach? What are the incentives or pressures for us to engage in design research in architecture today? 

Bio

Murray Fraser is Professor of Architecture and Global Culture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK. He is the former Chair of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. In 2008 his book Architecture and the 'Special Relationship' won the RIBA Research Award and CICA Bruno Zevi Book Prize, and his edited book on Design Research in Architecture: An Overview (2013) is a standard work in the field. He is General Editor for the 21st Edition of Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture (2020), awarded the SAHGB’s Colvin Prize. He received the 2018 RIBA Annie Spink Award for Excellence in Education.

Panelist

Li Hua (Southeast University)

Qi Shanshan (China Academy of Art)

Chair

Jianfei Zhu (Newcastle University)

 Chen Lichao (China Academy of Art)

Gong Chenxi (China Academy of Art)

Host

 China Academy of Art, Newcastle University