Demystifying Architectural Research

Adding Value to Your Practice
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-85946-578-3
Verlag: Riba Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 208 mm, Gewicht: 368 g

This practical, hands on introduction guides you through the basics of undertaking research in day-to-day architectural practice helping you to exploit the growing opportunities on offer. It explores how developing a research specialism can improve the quality of your projects, help to define your brand and generate new channels of revenue with innovative services for clients.

The text is divided into four sections focussing on different types of Architecture Research Practice; commercial, cultural, social and technology. Each section includes a series of inspiring case studies written by practitioners themselves on the way in which research benefits their business as well as an essay by an expert which sets these projects in their methodological context. In this way the book highlights the broad spectrum of research being undertaken and the practical implications for the practice and their projects.

This is designed for architects and practices who want to develop a clear specialism that adds brand value and will enable them to access new funding streams as well as students of architecture who are getting to grips with architectural research.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Samuel, Flora

Dye, Anne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Berufspraxis

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Social Architecture Research Practice 1. Visioning 2. Neighbourhood retrofitting 3. Co-design for new lifestyles 5. Collective Architecture 6. Specific Strategies in Practice 7. Methods in social architecture research practice Part 2: Technology 8. Angela Carter Close 9. Information systems for sustainable design 10. Lime and Materials 11. Sustainable building materials for commercial projects 12. Sandal Magna School 13. Methods progressing technology Part 3: Commercial practice 14. Procurement 15. Marketing architecture 16. Working as an expert witness 17. Commercial methods Part 4: Cultural 18. Sculpture and architecture in the modern city 19. Performance and art 20. Pop-up buildings in the city 21. Responding to the Welsh landscape at Stormy Castle 22. Neo-Vernacular Housing 23. Cultural methods

Über Autor(innen)

Flora Samuel is an Architect and Professor of Architecture at the University of Sheffield and formerly Head of School.

Anne Dye is Head of Technical Research at the RIBA, responsible for delivering the research agenda in alliance with the RIBA Research and Innovation Group. This includes the development, support and promotion of a range of strategic built-environment research projects both within the RIBA, in partnership with other organisations and within the wider research community, as well as providing advocacy for research to key stakeholders.