Graduate Research at Berkeley

Abstract

Graduate studies are acquiring more and more importance in the total picture of architectural education, and activities comprehended under the term research play an ever larger part in them. This trend is likely to continue, if for no better reason—and of course there are many better reasons—than that research is a magic word in our century. As those in certain other fields discovered long ago, where there is research, there the money flows. All too often, the result has been a concentration on the inessential and a growth of what the author of the preceding article calls “scientism.” If architectural research is to avoid these dangers it must attack problems that are real and employ methods that are truly scientific. Hence the value of the example of Berkeley, here described by Dr. Sami Hassid.