DESIGN INNOVATION FOR THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

Description

Today architecture and other fields in the built environment face the steep task of answering complex questions pertaining to sustainability, performance, and adaptability.

• How are these disciplines to accomplish these difficult tasks at such an immense pace?
• How might architectural practice renovate itself accordingly?

Worldwide it is becoming increasingly clear that different modes of research are emerging which are triggered directly by the need to renovate practice. One significant prevailing mode is what has come to be known as ‘research by design’.
This book delivers an overview of this pluralistic domain. Bringing together a range of leading architects, architectural theorists, and designers, it outlines the developments in current practice from leading individuals based in the USA, UK, Australia, Japan and Europe. Edited by a recognized expert, this book exposes the undercurrent of research, which is taking place and how this will contribute to the renovation of architectural practice.

CONTENTS

• Michael U. Hensel: Introduction to Design Innovation for the Built Environment: Research by Design and the Renovation of Practice
• David Leatherbarrow: The Project of Design Research
• Christopher Hight: One Step towards an Ecology of Design: Fields of Relations and Bodies of Knowledge
• Halina Dunin-Woyseth and Fredrik Nilsson: On the Emergence of Research by Design and Practice-Based Research Approaches in Architectural and Urban Design
• Mark Burry: Towards meeting the Challenges of facilitating Transdisciplinarity in Design Education, Research and Practice
• Hidetoshi Ohno and Bruno Peeters: Beyond Kenkyushitsu and Atelier – Towards a new Professional Education and Practice
• Inger-Lise Syversen: Reality Studio – A Search for Design Tools to Meet Complexity
• Michael Hensel, Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel and Jeffrey Turko: Research by Design in the Context of the OCEAN Design Research Association
• Birger Sevaldson: Systems-Oriented Design for the Built Environment
• Michael U. Hensel: Performance-Oriented Design as a Framework for Renovating Architectural Practice and Innovating Research by Design
• Michael U. Hensel: The Research Centre for Architecture and Tectonics – Implementing Research Towards Performance-Oriented Architecture
• Julian Vincent: How Can Biology Inform Architects?
• Siv Stangeland and Richard Kropf: Relational Practice
• Mehran Gharleghi and Amin Sadeghi: Studio Integrate – Interview with a young Practice focusing on Research by Design Studio Integrate
• Eva Castro and Alfredo Ramirez: Multiplying the Ground
• Andrew Morisson and Henry Mainsah: Building Communication by Design: Mobile Fiction and the City
• Sneve Martinussen: Making Material of the Networked City Einar

280 pages, b&w ills / 17,5 x 24,5 cm / English