Interdisciplinary Design in Practice

✍ Scribed by Sebastian MacMillan, Paul Kirby, Robin Spence

• Publisher: Thomas Telford Ltd
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 235
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Effective teamwork across disciplines is essential to solve the technological and managerial problems associated with today's construction projects. This book promotes interdisciplinary design for the construction industry, and discusses the challenges and rewards involved. It contains contributions from many prominent figures representing different professional viewpoints, among them architects Ian Ritchie and Richard Saxon, engineers Sir Alan Cockshaw, Michael Dickson and Sir Jack Zunz and developer Peter Rodgers. Case studies provide illustrations and examples. The book also presents and reviews recent innovative experiences of education for interdisciplinary design both in the university and practice environments. Further, it includes summaries of best practice in the design process drawn from management studies and academic research. In its focus on the collaborative nature of the design process the book addresses the neglected areas of teamwork and communication. It offers numerous examples where this way of working has achieved outstanding architectural results and project success in line with the Latham and Egan agendas

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Part 1 Interdisciplinary design in practice * Introduction - Robin Spence * Changing construction culture - Richard Saxon * The partnership approach - Sir Alan Cockshaw * The client and the design team - Peter Rogers * The design professions in transition - engineering and architecture in building for a small world - Michael Dickson * Synthetic thinking between engineers, architects and designers - Ian Ritchie * Different models of interdisciplinary collaboration - Sam PricePart 2 Educating the interdisciplinary designer * Introduction - Paul Kirby * Interdisciplinary education for design professionals - David Gann and Ammon Salter * Design for the built environment: bridging the Two Cultures - Sir Jack Zunz * Experiences of interdisciplinarity: observations from the Masters course 'Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment', Cambridge University - Paul Kirby * Working together: short courses for design teams - John Steele, Andy Parker and Paul KirbyPart 3 Design teams observed * Introduction - Sebastian Macmillan * Beyond the environmental tradition: lessons from the past for the architecture of the future - Dan Hawkes * Successful teamwork from day one: running an interdisciplinary design workshop - Sebastian Macmillan and Christopher French * Managing an interdisciplinary design team effectively - Sebastian Macmillan * Towards and interdisciplinary design process - John Steele and Sebastian Macmillan

✦ Subjects

Architectural practice -- Great Britain -- Management. Architectural design -- Great Britain -- Management.