Design Innovation for the Built Environment : Research by Design and the Renovation of Practice

"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"--Provided by publisher Introduction To Design Innovation For The Built Environment - Research By Design And The Renovation Of Practice / Michael U. Hensel -- The Project Of Design Research / David Leatherbarrow -- One Step Towards An Ecology Of Design: Fields Of Relations And Bodies Of Knowledge / Christopher Hight -- On The Emergence Of Research By Design And Practice-based Research Approaches In Architectural And Urban Design / Halina Dunin-woyseth And Fredrik Nilsson -- Towards Meeting The Challenges Of Facilitating Transdisciplinarity In Design Education, Research And Practice / Mark Burry -- Beyond Kenkyushitsu And Atelier - Towards A New Professional Education And Practice / Hidetoshi Ohno And Bruno Peeters -- Reality Studio - A Search For Design Tools To Meet Complexity / Inger-lise Syversen -- Research By Design In The Context Of The Ocean Design Research Association / Michael U. Hensel, Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel And Jeffrey P. Turko -- Systems-oriented Design For The Built Environment / Birger Sevaldson -- 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 / Michael U. Hensel -- How Can Biology Inform Architects? / Julian Vincent -- Relational Practice / Siv Stangeland And Reinhard Kropf -- Studio Integrate - Interview With A Young Practice Focusing On Research By Design / Michael U. Hensel In Conversation With Mehran Gharleghi And Amin Sadeghy -- Multiplying The Ground / Eva Castro And Alfredo Ramirez -- Building Communication By Design: Mobile Fiction And The City / Andrew Morrison And Henry Mainsah -- Making Material Of The Networked City / Einar Sneve Martinussen. Michael U. Hensel. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. 1. Front Cover 2. Design Innovation for the Built Environment 3. Title Page 4. Copyright 5. Copyright 6. Contents 7. List of contributors 8. Preface 9. Acknowledgements 10. Introduction to design innovation for the built environment – research by design and the renovation of practice 11. 1 The project of design research 12. 2 One step towards an ecology of design: fields of relations and bodies of knowledge 13. 3 On the emergence of research by design and practice-based research approaches in architectural and urban design 14. 4 Towards meeting the challenges of facilitating transdisciplinarity in design education, research and practice 15. 5 Beyond Kenkyushitsu and atelier – towards a new professional education and practice 16. 6 Reality Studio – a search for design tools to meet complexity 17. 7 Research by design in the context of the OCEAN Design Research Association 18. 8 Systems-oriented design for the built environment 19. 9 Performance-oriented design as a framework for renovating architectural practice and innovating research by design 20. 10 The Research Centre for Architecture and Tectonics – implementing research towards performance-oriented architecture 21. 11 How can biology inform architects? 22. 12 Relational practice 23. 13 Studio Integrate – interview with a young practice focusing on research by design 24. 14 Multiplying the ground 25. 15 Building communication by design: mobile fiction and the city 26. 16 Making material of the networked city 27. Index 28. Index Annotation Bringing together a range of leading architects, architectural theorists, and designers, this book outlines the developments in current practice in design innovation or the built environment from leading individuals based in the USA, UK, Australia, Japan and Europe