ABSTRACT
Architects need to become familiar during their training with the systematic language of primary research, most notably the reasonably universal stages within any research project – aims, methodology, research context, limitations, methods, testing, results, and conclusion and so on. Architects regularly use images that belong to others without crediting them in presentations, in collages and in Photoshop, perhaps because they are so used to seeing their own work pass uncredited into the public realm. In the USA the Architecture Lobby is fighting 'for a professional organization that feels confident to argue for what is right'. The alignment between architectural research and other fields becomes all the more pressing as methodologies that span across disciplinary silos are urgently needed to address societal challenges such as climate change, rapid urbanisation and ageing. Architecture's 'design studio' methodology is an area of research activity that the discipline can be proud of.
