摘要:
The work presents an argument for the continuLng relevance to archftectural desIgn methodol-ogy of lnvestigatlons into the methods of sclence' mathematIcs, and englneerIng' The hlstorical dependence of design methods upon sclentLffc tech- nLques fs demonstrated. A challenge, posed by the work of llorst Rittel' to the assumptlon that desl-gn problems are solvable by such technlques fs presented. It 1s argued that the characterlstics of desfgn problems whlch were elaboraEed by Rlttel- are lfrnited Ln Eheir ability to dLstlngulsh deslgn and plannfng problems from those amenable to technlques derived from Ehe sclences. Thfs contentlon fs supported by the presentatlon of studfes in the theory of algoriEhms, the psychol"ogy of problem solvfng, computer science and system science.