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Research, design and Popper

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Michael Brawne
Affiliation:
28 College RoadBath BA1 5RR, United Kingdom

Abstract

This paper is intended as a contribution to the discussion of the declared topic of this journal, architectural research. It stems partly from the author's book From Idea to Building and is mainly an analysis of the similarity between architectural design and scientific research based on Karl Popper's hypothetico-deductive theory, and in particular the sequence from problem recognition through tentative solution and error elimination to an explanation which may become the problem in the next sequence of research.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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