Description
The discipline of architecture is currently undergoing a significant change as professional practice and academia seem to be transforming one another specifically through succinct research undertakings. This book continues the discussion started in The Changing Shape of Practice 窶� Integrating Research and Design in Architecture on architectural offices窶� modes of research and lines of inquiry in architecture and how it reshapes practice. The book aims to contribute to the mapping and discussion on research in architectural practice and its transformational impact and gives input to the discussions on where the architectural profession is heading.
In this second volume, various research initiatives and modes in architectural practices are portrayed. The book also includes contributions that broaden the scope and put the developments into larger contexts, and present an overview of developments from different regional perspectives and of various social aspects of architecture. It also relates the developments in practice to educational efforts and to initiatives where the more traditional role of architects is challenged.
The contributions include chapters by Walter Unterrainer, Anthony Burke, Renée Cheng and Andrea J. Johnson, and Michael U. Hensel, and on the practices atelier d窶兮rchitecture autogérée, Helen & Hard, MVRDV and The Why Factory, NADAAA & Nader Tehrani, Nordic 窶� Office of Architecture, Schmidt Hammer Lassen, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Void, Sarah Wigglesworth Architects, and Älvstranden Utveckling.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Chapter 1:
Current Changes in Conditions and Contexts for Architectural Research and Practice 窶� A Brief Introduction
Michael U. Hensel and Fredrik Nilsson
Chapter 2:
Emerging Exit Strategies
Walter Unterrainer
Chapter 3:
Prototyping Practice
Anthony Burke
Chapter 4:
Consortium for Research Practices: Closing the knowledge loop between education and practice through research
Renée Cheng and Andrea J. Johnson
Chapter 5:
Evolving Contours in Rethinking 窶� Reskilling 窶� Retooling: Life-long learning, Research Capacities and Lateral Networking
Michael U. Hensel
Chapter 6:
atelier d窶兮rchitecture autogérée: Transgressive practices for resilient urban agency
Doina Petrescu, Constantin Petcou and Fredrik Nilsson
Chapter 7:
The Relational Designs of Helen & Hard
Siv Stangeland and Michael U. Hensel
Chapter 8:
MVRDV + The Why Factory: Factoring the why in design practice
Winy Maas, Javier Arpa and Fredrik Nilsson
Chapter 9:
On the Necessity of Messy Research: Nader Tehrani
Brandon Clifford
Chapter 10:
Nordic - Office of Architecture: An Account of Current Research Efforts
John Arne Bjerknes, Kristine Andrule, Marcus Enskat, Christian Henriksen, Bridget White and John Christer Høiby
Chapter 11:
Schmidt Hammer Lassen: Giving and gaining 窶� co-creating knowledge and exploring practice at SHL
Trine Berthold and Fredrik Nilsson
Chapter 12:
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill: Building on the Legacy of Technological and Architectural Innovation
Daniel Cashen and Neil Katz
Chapter 13:
Into < > Out of the Void
Joakim Wiig Hoen and Michael U. Hensel
Chapter 14:
Ideal Pragmatists: Research work at Sarah Wigglesworth Architects
Sarah Wigglesworth
Chapter 15:
Designing Fusion Points of Urban Design, Practice and Research 窶� The Case of Älvstranden Utveckling and RiverCity Gothenburg
Fredrik Nilsson, Lena Andersson and Åsa Swan
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