domain, discipline, syntax

in fact, designers are solution-led, not problem-led; for

designers, it is the evaluation of the solution that is important,
not the analysis of the problem.
“we must train them in techniques of operations instead of seeking
formal results or types”

(conversation between Marc Angelil & Dirk Hebel)

a domain of knowledge, or simply a domain, refers to an area of
information tied directly to specialized activity or a dicipline
 sociology

literature

linguistics

other…

design

biology

politics
 dicipline a

dicipline b
architecture

design

dicipline c
a dicipline is defined by domain of objects, a set of methods, a
corpus of proposition considered to be true, a play of rules and
definitions, of techniques and instruments.

-Michel Foucault
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extra-diciplinary concerns (influences) translation diciplinary syntax

EXTERIOR INTERIOR
not architecture architecture

politics
biology

diagram of Architecture as a diciplinary structure with boundary, syntax, and influences (Plowright, 2014)

(redrawed by defry, 2018)

diciplinary boundaries*

surface representation, texture, pattern, plane, colour, massing, materiality

formal elements

bodily movements

socio-spatial events

engagement of human scale

enviromental qualities

etc
architectural syntax
 Pragmatically, the most essential thing that any designer does is to provide, for
those who will make a new artefact, a description of what that artefact should be
like. Usually, little or nothing is left to the discretion of the makers – the designer
specifies the artefact’s dimensions, materials, finishes and colours.
formal aspect’s manipulation

Located in space: position, direction, orientation, centre, surface

A sense of visual inertia: stable, unstable, balanced, neutral

Defining a container: border, enclosure, bounding of void (perceptual or physical),

frame

Associated with other elements: number, geometry, proportion, hierarchy, repetition,

rhytm, front to side, entry, centre, edge

Pressures and forces between elements: interlacing, strecth, fragmentation,

decomposition, fold, graft, rotation, shift

A sense of identity: superimposition, superposition

Sumber : Step Forward Bask8ball Training Centre, Defry Agatha Ardianta, ITS 2004
Sumber : Step Forward Bask8ball Training Centre, Defry Agatha Ardianta, ITS 2004
Sumber : Step Forward Bask8ball Training Centre, Defry Agatha Ardianta, ITS 2004
Sumber : Step Forward Bask8ball Training Centre, Defry Agatha Ardianta, ITS 2004