New Strategies of Linkography for Investigating the Role of Dialogues in Architectural Design Education

Abstract

Design takes the form of verbal and visual negotiation among designers, designers and clients, and students and instructors. This raises the question of the role of verbal dialogue in the production of architectural designs. Through protocol analysis of the interaction of instructor-student in two fifth-year graduation projects over the course of two semesters, this paper emphasizes the crucial role of 'dialogue' in the reformulating of a design situation, enabling the simultaneous investigation of theory, form, architectural language, and building type, where theory proved to be a decisive factor, and opening up venues of creative thinking.".