ABSTRACT

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.

chapter Chapter 2|9 pages

Emerging exit strategies

chapter Chapter 3|8 pages

Prototyping practice

chapter Chapter 4|12 pages

Consortium for Research Practices

Closing the knowledge loop between education and practice through research

chapter Chapter 5|16 pages

Evolving contours in rethinking – reskilling – retooling

Life-long learning, research capacities and lateral networking

chapter Chapter 6|10 pages

atelier d’architecture autogérée

Transgressive practices for resilient urban agency

chapter Chapter 8|9 pages

MVRDV + The Why Factory

Factoring the why in design practice

chapter Chapter 9|10 pages

On the necessity of messy rearch

Neder Tehrani

chapter Chapter 10|14 pages

Nordic — Office of Architecture

An account of current research efforts

chapter Chapter 11|12 pages

Schmidt Hammer Lassen

Giving and gaining — co-creating knowledge and exploring practice at SHL

chapter Chapter 12|10 pages

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Building on the legacy of technological and architectural innovation

chapter Chapter 13|9 pages

Into < > out of the Void

chapter Chapter 14|9 pages

Ideal

Research work at Sarah Wigglesworth Architects

chapter Chapter 15|16 pages

Designing fusion points of urban design, practice and research

The case of Älvstranden Utveckling and RiverCity Gothenburg