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TL;DR: The use of behavioral sciences in architecture is often based on the assumption that the architect, by relying on the techniques and concepts of the behavioral sciences, will be able to circumvent some of the traditional difficulties of arriving at design solutions as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: This chapter argues that both the belief in a scientifically determined architecture and the belief in an architecture based on the combination of science and intuition rest on false premises. The use of the behavioral sciences in architecture is often based on the assumption that the architect, by relying on the techniques and concepts of the behavioral sciences, will be able to circumvent some of the traditional difficulties of arriving at design solutions. In mentioning typology, Pastor Maldonado is suggesting something quite new, and something which has been rejected again and again by modern theorists. One of the most frequent arguments used against typological procedures in architecture has been that they are a vestige of an age of craft. It is held that the use of models by craftsmen became less necessary as the development of scientific techniques enabled man to discover the general laws underlying the technical solutions of the pre-industrial age.
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