The Changing Shape of Architecture

Description

The Changing Shape of Architecture: Further Cases of Integrating Research and Design in Practice

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 – Integrating Research and Design in Architecture on architectural offices’ 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’architecture autogérée, Helen & Hard, MVRDV and The Why Factory, NADAAA & Nader Tehrani, Nordic – Office of Architecture, Schmidt Hammer Lassen, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Void, Sarah Wigglesworth Architects, and Älvstranden Utveckling.

CONTENTS

• Chapter 1: Current Changes in Conditions and Contexts for Architectural Research and Practice – 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 – Reskilling – Retooling: Life-long learning, Research Capacities and Lateral Networking / Michael U. Hensel
• Chapter 6: atelier d’architecture 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 – 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 – The Case of Älvstranden Utveckling and RiverCity Gothenburg / Fredrik Nilsson, Lena Andersson and Åsa Swan
• Bibliography, Index

192 pages, 250 Color Illus. / 21,5 x 27,5 cm / English