Selected literature about design research

Last changed: 11 June 2024

Here you find a selection of literature and metatexts about design research. Our ambition is to make a commented bibliography.

Ammon, S. (2019). Drawing Inferences: Thinking with 6B (and Sketching Paper). Philos. Technol32, 591–612. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-018-0323-5

Ammon, S. (2017). Why Designing Is Not Experimenting: Design Methods, Epistemic Praxis and Strategies of Knowledge Acquisition in Architecture. Philos. Technol30, 495–520. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-017-0256-4

Biggs, M., Karlsson, H. (eds.) (2011). The Routledge Companion to Research in the Arts. London and New York: Routledge.

Borgdorff, H. (2012). The Conflict of the Faculties. Perspectives on Artistic Research and Academia. Leiden: Leiden University Press.

Dee, C. (2001). Form and Fabric in Landscape Architecture. A Visual Introduction. London and New York: Spon Press.

Feyerabend, P. (2010). Against method: Outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge. New York: Verso Books.

Frayling, C. (1993). Research in Art and Design. Royal College of Art Research Papers. 1(1), 1-5.  

Hannula, M., Suoranta, J. and Vadén, T. (2005). Artistic research – theories, methods and practices. Helsinki: Academy of Fine Art.

Ingold, T. (2016). Lines. A Brief History. London and New York: Routledge.

Krupinska, J. (2014). What an architecture student should know. New York and London: Routledge. 

Oles, T. (2014). Go with me – 50 Steps to Landscape Thinking. Amsterdam: Architectura & Natura Publishers.

Stilgoe, J.R. (1998). Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places. New York: Walker and Company. 

Yaneva, A. (2005). Scaling up and down: extraction trials in architectural design. Social Studies of Science, 35(6), 867–894.

Yaneva, A. (2009). The making of a building: a pragmatist approach to architecture. Oxford: Peter Lang.


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