ABSTRACT
The field of architecture relies on consolidating knowledge to design, construct, and shape the built environment. Architects participate in the cause and solutions of intractable social and ecological problems. To engage the entire domain of their actions, they can form research teams with urban ecologists, environmental managers, physicists, material engineers, anthropologists, and more. Research Director Billie Faircloth reflcts on KieranTimberlake's 15-year journey to pursue and demonstrate the value of transdisciplinarity. Faircloth situates her account in an expository review of transdisciplinarity in the sciences, during which a tradition of architectural research professionalism was born. An exploration of four themes: forming, researching, collaborating, and affirming, build the case for the criticality of transdisciplinarity in providing solutions to the challenges of knowledge production and distribution in architecture.
