Abstract:

This study examines the visual-search and information-gathering behavior of architects in the early architectural design phase in relation to varied media tools. The study proposes the idea that navigation skills in online media help designers discover more creative solution areas during their design process. In continuation of our research, conceptual conclusions are made based on the results obtained from the field study and the literature review. In this context, we discuss the concept constituting the habitus of digital architecture. We re-evaluated our conceptual proposal by applying design experiments to examine the phenomena contained in the habitus of design-oriented research. We have discussed the results from the experiments in this article in detail; focusing on whether correlation exists between the interviewees’ expressions and designers’ practices. We then adapted field theory, as elaborated by Pierre Bourdieu in 1984, to the digital habitus of architecture. Afterward, by taking the process of design-oriented knowledge production into account, we have identified two fields of design-oriented digital habitus: online and offline. The fields forming the habitus of digital architecture and the possible advantages that may occur based on these fields have been identified. Finally, the meaning of having digital privilege for architects has been evaluated in terms of the future of architecture.

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