THESIS STATEMENT

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Arina Ilmia
Bramasta Putra Redyantanu
Elmira Zanjabila
Mohammad Hisyam Basyeban
Rizky Reyhan Dwiputra
Syifa Rahmi Meliansari
 1.Thesis statement in architectural science
2. Research Thesis vs Design Thesis
3. How to build a 'thesis statement' in a sample article
 THESIS STATEMENT

Jarzombek (1996) Abbey (1996) Frampton (1996) Morse-Fortier (1996) Reiter (1996)

Thesis constitutes the
threshold between student
and professional, and
architecture as fantasy and
as an intellectual discourse
Thesis is a tool to transmit
knowledge and intention in a
way that can be both
rigorous in locating
boundaries in an existent
discourse and yet poetic in
its capacity to reach beyond
the immediate problem to
some larger issue
A cumulative experience
that demonstrated by a
design proposal to a well
formulated hypothesis.
It is necessary to establish
the grounds for evaluation
and viability of the design
response.
It is resulting a convincing
argument showing the
connection between
research and design
proposal
Successful conclusion of
pedagogical sequence
process
Architectural thesis is
supposed to validate a
supposition that has been
derived from a specific
research
Thesis is an important bridge
between school and practice
A thesis as a result, begins
with a hypothesis that builds
upon a theoretical
foundation, test that
hypothesis, and either
corroborates or not the
original hypothesis
Thesis is different from client
based architectural
project/real architectural
problem solving
Thesis as a model of linking
theory and eventual practice

● Thesis is a bridge or a link between architectural practice (design-practice)

and architectural science (research-theory)
● Thesis should be transmitting knowledge
● Thesis as a result of systematic research-design process (into-for-by) :
idea/issue > theoretical foundation > purpose statement > hypothesis >
inquiry/experiment/survey > measurement/review/critics/modification >
result interpretation as thesis

Threshold (MIT), Vol. 1, 1996.

 THESIS STATEMENT

EXAMPLE
DIALECTICS
a tool of categorization and critical analysis
Point of view : original, reflective, philosophical

THESIS ANTITHESIS THESIS ANTITHESIS

originating idea, The opposite or Concept of The opposite of

position, or counter something : thesis :
argument argument NATURE NURTURE

SYNTHESIS SYNTHESIS

Reconciliation or Combination of
transformation Nature and
of both Nurture in
human
psychology

a strategy for writing and evaluating philosophical concepts

Korydon Smith, Debating a Discipline: Architecture, Argument, and the Concept of the Dialectic. Chapter: “Debating a Discipline,” pp. 8-11.
 THESIS BUILDING

Avoid the fallacy : criterion : operational - open-ended - flexible- analytical - explicit - precise - tested (Flacher, 1970)

RESULT
INTERPRETATI
THEORETICAL PURPOSE HYPOTHESIS/ INQUIRY/ MEASURE
ISSUE / IDEA ON :
FOUNDATION STATEMENT QUESTION EXPERIMENT MENT
RESEARCH
THESIS

RESEARCH PROCESS

IDEA > CRITICS

DESIGN DESIGN
PROGRAM THEORETICAL REVIEW DESIGN
PROPOSAL / DEVELOP
MATIC FOUNDATION MODIFI THESIS
HYPOTHESIS MENT
RESEARCH CATION

DESIGN AS SCHOLAR PROCESS

Threshold (MIT), Vol. 1, 1996.

David Hackett Flacher, “Fallacies of Question Framing,” dalam Historians’ Fallacies, 1970, Harper Press, pp. 3-30
Creswell, J. (2014). Research design : qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches. SAGE Publications.
 RESEARCH V DESIGN THESIS

basic
Design
Limited to problem solving /
NO THESIS
intuition

relation Research into/about design

(understanding design/designer)
Design Research RESEARCH THESIS

Research for design

(research to enable design)
RESEARCH THESIS &
Research Design
DESIGN THESIS

integration
development Research
RESEARCH BY DESIGN
THESIS
Design

Research through / by design

(creating knowledge through reflection)

Johan Verbeke, “This is Research by Design”, dalam Murray Fraser (Ed). Design Research in Architecture, 2013, pp. 137-159.
Jeremy Till, “Is Doing Architecture Doing Research?” The 4th International Meeting on Architectural and Urbanism Research.
Frayling, C., Research in art and design, (London: Royal College of Art: Research Paper, 1993)
 CASE STUDY

Thesis Statement
This seemingly straightforward exercise was a gateway to much larger issues, such as the intersections between air ventilation and
educational inequality, as the studio responded to unfolding evidence and a global emergency in real time.

Carr, S. J., McIntosh, A., Murphy, M., & Ochsendorf, J. (2022). Schools that Breathe: Studio Education in the Pandemic. Journal of Architectural Education, 76(1), 60–74.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10464883.2022.2017693
 CASE STUDY

Design studies as part of research process

Carr, S. J., McIntosh, A., Murphy, M., & Ochsendorf, J. (2022). Schools that Breathe: Studio Education in the Pandemic. Journal of Architectural Education, 76(1), 60–74.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10464883.2022.2017693
 CASE STUDY

RESEARCH BY DESIGN PROCESS

ISSUE / IDEA THEORETICAL PURPOSE HYPOTHESIS EXPERIMENT MEASURE RESEARCH

MENT BY DESIGN
School & Covid Fresh Air Illustrating the Connection Cambridge THESIS
19 Pandemic Movement in intersection of between Public School Reflection
Situation School; Health air ventilation ventilation Proposal through Architecture-
& Equity and and edu curated health
education equality designs relation

PROGRAM THEORETICAL DESIGN DEVELOP REVIEW DESIGN

MATIC FOUNDATION PROPOSAL MENT THESIS
Professional
Retrofit design Covid indoor Energy, Design review for the Energy
of existing safety porosity, simulation design resilience,
school guideline community, process proposals porosity, and
pedagogical pedagogy

DESIGN SIMULATION PROCESS

Design is taking part in research process, not before and not after the research, design as reflection in action
= Research by Design
Carr, S. J., McIntosh, A., Murphy, M., & Ochsendorf, J. (2022). Schools that Breathe: Studio Education in the Pandemic. Journal of Architectural Education, 76(1), 60–74.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10464883.2022.2017693
 CONCLUSION

Design as
Research
Scholar
Process generate
Process
THESIS
Research, research into design, research for
design, research by design

Design as
Research
Scholar
Process generate
Process
SYNTHESIS
Research, research into design, research for
design, research by design

Design as
Research
Scholar
Process
Process generate ANTI
THESIS
Research, research into design, research for
design, research by design
 DISCUSSION

1. Apakah desain selalu menjadi bagian dari riset, ataukah mungkin sebaliknya, riset menjadi bagian dari
desain?
2. Apakah anti-tesis harus melalui rangkaian riset ilmiah ? atau hanya dugaan kontra terhadap tesis yang
sudah ada?
3. Bagaimana cara untuk mengecek proses desain (sebagai ilmu) menghasilkan suatu tesis, bukan
sebatas proposal?
4. Untuk model riset untuk desain, jika proses desain setelah riset sebatas penyelesaian masalah, apakah
desain tersebut menghasilkan tesis ?
 REFERENCE

CASE STUDY

Carr, S. J., McIntosh, A., Murphy, M., & Ochsendorf, J. (2022). Schools that Breathe: Studio Education in the Pandemic. Journal of Architectural
Education, 76(1), 60–74. https://doi.org/10.1080/10464883.2022.2017693

THESIS STATEMENT

Mark Jarzombek, “A Thesis,” Bruse Abbey, “Thesis: ‘As Necessary for the Health of the Institution as the Student,’ “Kenneth Frampton, “Anti-Thesis
Pedagogy,” Len Morse-Fortire, “Ruminations of the Role of the Technical Reader, “ and Wellington Reiter, “The Art and Profession of Thesis-Making,”
in Threshold (MIT), Vol. 1, 1996.

Korydon Smith, Debating a Discipline: Architecture, Argument, and the Concept of the Dialectic. Chapter: “Debating a Discipline,” pp. 8-11.

David Hackett Flacher, “Fallacies of Question Framing,” dalam Historians’ Fallacies, 1970, Harper Press, pp. 3-30

Protzen, “Informal Argumentative Fallacies”

DESIGN AND RESEARCH

Johan Verberke, “This is Research by Design”, dalam Murray Fraser (Ed). Design Research in Architecture, 2013, pp. 137-159.

Jeremy Till, “Is Doing Architecture Doing Research?” The 4th International Meeting on Architectural and Urbanism Research.

Frayling, C., Research in art and design, (London: Royal College of Art: Research Paper, 1993)