EMPIRISISME, SEBUAH PENDEKATAN PENELITIAN ARSITEKTURAL

Abstract

Empirisism is a paradigm in science philosophy which influences various
kind of research methods, include architectural researches. Using content analysis,
this paper aimed to explore empirisism, from many aspects. Those are history
development, characteristics, levels, and also relation of empirisism with other
paradigm, especially rasionalism. In architectural research, empiricism commonly
named as naturalistic method.This paper concluded that besides has many
important roles, empirism also has weakness, so it is better to develop researches
by using both of those paradigms, empirism and rasionalism, especially in
architectural researches.
Keywords: empiricism, paradigm, rasionalism