Savoir-faire/faire savoir : how to Engage Architecture practice as a Research Tool?

Today the understanding of design processes is fundamental in the interpretation of architectural designs, since universal rules of composition (harmony) and common ideals (beauty) have failed to support them exhaustively. This paper explores ways of engaging the design expertise of an architect as an immersive research tool allowing to recompose design processes and narratives. The research engages design practice as a tool, and is completed by the verbalization of the results. The paper exposes this modus operandi through a transversal one-day exercise in the framework of several architecture studios at Uliège