KNOWLEDGE

Architectural knowledge enables architects to create humane environments that emerges from and responds to societal, cultural and environmental needs. The humane environment is all about reason, emotion and intuition where architects have to resolve with the ability and knowledge to conceptualize, coordinate, and execute the idea of building. Like any other distinctive branches of education in design, architecture requires the development of creative capabilities to produce three dimensional spaces and form that accommodates for related human activities.

Knowledge in architecture can be regarded as a prerequisite to knowledge sharing within an infrastructure that combines people, content and technology all together.

Knowledge sharing often requires people to do a proper job in the case of assig ning job content to the right people to make sure that information flows to the right departments at the right time. This can be done by assigning people authority and responsibility for specific kinds of knowledge content and knowledge delivery. This avoids departments to become territorial in a typical organization fighting over budget or over the control of sensitive processes, and ensures departments to be cooperative and ready to share knowledge. The necessary knowledge transfer between people and technology involves capturing implied knowledge from experts, storing it in knowledge base, and making it available to people for solving complex problems.

Design studios are directed to practical ends and that knowledge cannot substitute for architectural imagination yet inadequate knowledge would handicap the general level of design. The architectural design process is knowledge intensive which requires a sequence of design decisions to be made. In our team it is expected that every one of us are at the same knowledge level with computer skills so it becomes easy to communicate to one another without much explanation.

REFERENCE

www.humiliationstudies.org/documents/SalamaICHH-05.pdf

http://www.ds.arch.tue.nl/Research/publications/henri/am97ha.htm

http://turing.une.edu.au/~comp292/Lectures/HEADER_KM_2004_LEC_NOTES/node17.html