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Demystifying Architectural Research: Adding Value to Your Practice book cover

1st Edition

Demystifying Architectural Research Adding Value to Your Practice

By Flora Samuel, Anne Dye Copyright 2019
144 Pages
by RIBA Publishing

144 Pages
by RIBA Publishing
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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... Read more

Part 1: Social Architecture Research Practice  

1. Visioning

John Sampson, Urbed 

2. Neighbourhood retrofitting

Irena Bauman, Bauman Lyons  

3. Co-design for new lifestyles

Jane Burnside

5. Collective Architecture

Jude Barber, Collective Architecture  

6. Specific Strategies in Practice

Richard Cottrell, Cottrell and Vermeulen  

7. Methods in social architecture research practice

Julia Udall 

Part 2: Technology  

8. Angela Carter Close

Anne Thorne, Cartwright Pickard  

9. Information systems for sustainable design

Merritt Bucholz, Bucholz McEvoy  

10. Lime and Materials

Ian Standen, Stride Treglown  

11. Sustainable building materials for commercial projects

Chris Halligan, Steven George and Partners  

12. Sandal Magna School

Sarah Wigglesworth, Architects  

13. Methods progressing technology

Fionn Stevenson 

Part 3: Commercial practice  

14. Procurement

Walter Menteth, Walter Menteth Architects  

15. Marketing architecture 

Paul Iddon, Kernel Sympatico  

16. Working as an expert witness 

Gordon Gibb, Gibb Architects 

17. Commercial methods 

Peter Oborn and Anne Dye 

Part 4: Cultural 

18. Sculpture and architecture in the modern city

Patrick Lynch, Lynch Architects  

19. Performance and art

Helen Stratford, Mole architects 

20. Pop-up buildings in the city

Tony Broomhead, Broomheads Homemade 

21. Responding to the Welsh landscape at Stormy Castle 

Dan Benham, Loyn & Co.  

22. Neo-Vernacular Housing

Gillian Horne, Penoyre and Prasad  

23. Cultural methods 

Steven Walker 

Biography

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.

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