The Way We Think about the Way We Think

Today's scholar is evaluated primarily through the metric of research narrowly defined under a scientific rubric. This idea of research has become naturalized, and its ubiquity cuts across most disciplines. Research as such has become overvalued as the only arbiter of success and has led to increasingly difficult hurdles for the architecture professoriate in tenure and promotion. Instead of trying to argue that architecture is a valid exception to the rule of research, the discipline should seek to become a leader in changing and broadening how research is understood in academe.