ABSTRACT

Knowledge architects are kept well hidden in a profession that foregrounds and celebrates practitioners who build unexpected things. Architects working with highly confidential information have to commit to extreme degrees of encryption in their working practices. The use of architectural knowledge to choreograph and improve client experience seems set to become a thriving area of practice if a report on the growth of 'Service Design' is to be believed. One way in which architects literally order knowledge and its production spatially is in the design of research facilities and libraries. This chapter examines the development of knowledge within duffy eley giffone Worthington itself, in a continuous cycle of learning, reflection, action and dissemination through writing and leadership activities within the profession. The curation of knowledge is fundamental to parametric design, a design approach in which knowledge is collected to generate objects from 'fields' of information.