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Design Research in Architecture

Editor(s): Murray Fraser and Andong Lu

Series Editors: Murray Fraser and Andong Lu

Since the Renaissance a number of architect-scholars have created methods of intellectual scrutiny of architectural design that rely upon the interplay of drawings, models, textual analysis, intellectual ideas and cultural insights. Yet there is still no cohesive framework or outlet for design research in architecture. This innovative book series – still the only one of its kind – showcases the very best proponents of architectural design research from around the globe, drawing on a range of exemplar positions between practice and academia.

Featuring work from Early Career Researchers and leading architect-scholars in practice and academia, books in the series vary in tone and structure, covering aspects such as design method, visual representation, reasoned critique, social processes and strategies for action. The series is deliberately inclusive to encourage a vibrant, novel approach, and is openly international. Each book combines serious historical or theoretical research with creative propositions expressed through drawings, models or texts; indeed, it is the symbiotic interplay between these components that forms the basis for design research in architecture. Now is a fertile time for design research and this book series acts as the heart of these investigations.

Cover coming soon open access
Architecture of Memory

Natalia Romik,

27 October 2025

open access
Architecture’s Model Environments

Lisa Moffitt,

20 February 2023

open access
Experiments with Body Agent Architecture

Alessandro Ayuso,

31 March 2022

open access
Architecture as a Way of Seeing and Learning

Nerea Amorós Elorduy,

16 August 2021

open access
Dwelling on the Future

Pierre d'Avoine,

01 October 2020

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