Research by Design
Making + Scholarship Symposium 2018
17 January 2018 \\ 15:00-18:30 \\ NUS Create Tower
Level 7 \\ 1 Create Way, 138602 Singapore
Moderator: Lilian Chee , Associate Professor National University of Singapore
Speakers:
Michael Budig, Assistant Professor Singapore University of Technology and Design
Chris Knapp, Professor Western Sydney University
Florian Schätz , Assistant Professor National University of Singapore
Erik L’Heureux, Associate Professor National University of Singapore
John Hong, Associate Professor Seoul National University
The design architect has traditionally been fundamental to the core faculty of schools and departments of architecture.
From Maxwell Fry to Paul Rudolph, to Walter Gropius and to João Batista Vilanova Artigas, the architect who designs, makes and builds gave legitimacy to the educational curriculum, putting words to action, drawings to buildings, ideas into material form. Over the past 25 years in many institutions worldwide, a shift has occurred as schools of architecture have been pressured to align with traditional forms of research especially at Universities claiming to champion research. Design Architects, however, who build and championed ideas through making have moved further to the exterior of the academy and largely to adjunct positions or have moved into PhD by Practice programs to legitimate their design efforts. In so doing, the dynamic ecosystem found in mid-century schools of architecture has transformed with serious consequences.
This Research by Design symposium brings a series of international Architects who design, making, and teach and write from Asia and Australia. Significant questions will be asked: Is design and making research? What is the difference between Research and an Architect’s individual “Project”. What is the difference between making and making with impact? And finally, why are architects in the academy anyway?
From L to R: Prof Chris Knapp, Assoc Prof Michael Budig, Asst Prof Florian Schätz, Assoc Prof Erik L’Heureux, Assoc Prof John Hong, Dr Lilian Chee. Photography by Ong Chan Hao.
Assoc Prof Erik L’Heureux, Presentation on Hot & Wet.
Prof Chris Knapp, from Western Sydney University.
(Left to Right) Asst Prof Florian Schaetz, Asoc Prof John Hong from Seoul National University, Prof Ho Puay Peng, Head of Department of Architecture NUS, Assoc Prof Michael Budig from SUTD, OSM Distinguished Prof 2018 Colin Fournier (Bartlett SoA).
(From L to R) Prof Chris Knapp, Assoc Prof Michael Budig, Asst Prof Florian Schätz engaging with Tay Kheng Soon.
Assoc Prof Erik L’Heureux and Assoc Prof John Hong, in dialogue.