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Idea Development Can Occur Using Imagery Only

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Design Computing and Cognition '08

This paper shows that expert architects can effectively develop ideas without sketching during early conceptual designing. We analyzed design protocols of six expert architects working on two different design problems under two different conditions, one in which they were blindfolded and one in which they were sketching. Architects developed design ideas efficiently when they were blind folded, as opposed to the common view that they would better develop ideas with sketching.

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  1. University of Technology Sydney, Australia

    Zafer Bilda

  2. George Mason University, USA

    John S. Gero

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  1. Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, USA

    John S. Gero

  2. Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia, USA

    Ashok K. Goel

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Bilda, Z., Gero, J.S. (2008). Idea Development Can Occur Using Imagery Only. In: Gero, J.S., Goel, A.K. (eds) Design Computing and Cognition '08. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8728-8_16

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