Abstract
The study of architectural, urban and related technical design struggles with its context sensitivity hampering a contextless and categorybound scientific generalization. Many concepts describing design issues are different from the categories and variables of empirical science. Incomparable categories such as ‘strong’, ‘useful’ and ‘beautiful’ have to be combined in design. These combinations cannot be expressed in a ‘statement-based’ scientific discourse. Design annoyingly jumps through its sentences and statements that unroll primarily in time. Images are indispensible in communicating the spatial diversity observed or intended. Materializing spaces allows contradictions, but it is not irrational. It only transcends the categories of verbal language and classical logic. It uses the sources of imagination in a rational, but not always in a logical, and certainly not in a predictable way. Art shifts the boundaries of imagination. And imagination is the foundation of both science and design. Art transcends categories into new imaginations. New imaginations are required to find new categories as components of a composition. Design restricts itself to realizable imaginations. Its boundary is ‘possibility’, whereas science restricts itself to ‘probability’.
Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a callDisclaimer: All third-party content on this website/platform is and will remain the property of their respective owners and is provided on "as is" basis without any warranties, express or implied. Use of third-party content does not indicate any affiliation, sponsorship with or endorsement by them. Any references to third-party content is to identify the corresponding services and shall be considered fair use under The CopyrightLaw.
