Diagramming Design Research

Journal of Interior Design

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 33-43

  Wang, David ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 51249140520     PISSN: 10717641     EISSN: 19391668     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-1668.2007.tb00420.x     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Donna P. Duerk, Architectural Programming: Information Management for Design (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1993).
2. Weld Coxe, Managing Architectural and Engineering Practice (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1980), 58–64.
3. Bill Hillier and Julianne Hanson, The Social Logic of Space (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1984), 155–75.
4. Linda Groat and David Wang, Architectural Research Methods (New York: John Wiley & Son, 2002).
5. I am indebted to Professor Linda Groat for the term “ways of knowing”.
6. Groat and Wang, Chapters 6–12.
7. Herbert Gans, The Levittowners: ways of life and politics in a new suburban community [New York: Pantheon Books, 1967.
8. David Wang, “Categories of ACSA Conference papers: A critical evaluation of architectural research in light of social science methodological frameworks,” Journal of Architectural Education 56, no. 4 (2003, May): 50–56.
9. One benefit of the use of multiple tactics is that it enables “triangulation,” or, the idea that a research outcome is more robust if it can be derived from several different approaches. These different approaches involve the use of different tactics.
10. Ellen Berkeley, “More than you want to know about Boston City Hall,” Architecture Plus (1973, February): 72–77, 98.
11. Space does not allow further elaboration of this example. Suffice it to say that, as indicated here, strategies can also act as tactics. When this happens, the diagramming method still labels them with a round-headed paddle, but the names are additionally placed in their original rectangular frames as well. One consequence of this is that a secondary set of tactics branching off of the secondary strategies-as-tactics can emerge. These are shown as vertical round-headed paddles in the diagram.
12. Gerald Susman, “Action Research,” in Beyond Method: Strategies for Social Research, ed. Careth Morgan (Newbury Parkv, CA: Sage Publications, 1983), 95.
13. Two source books from the social science literature relevant to this point are: W. Lawrence Neuman, Social Research Methods (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1997); and Norman Denzin and Lincoln Yvonna, Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1998).