Architectural practices worldwide have to deal with increasingly complex design requirements. How do practices acquire the ability to do so? The Changing Shape of Practice provides a handbook of examples for practices that wish to integrate more research into their work and a reference book for students that seek to prepare themselves for the changing shape of practice in architecture. It addresses the increasing integration of research undertaken in architectural practices of different sizes ranging from small to very large practices from the UK, USA, Europe and Asia. The book is organized according to the size of the practices which is significant in that it addresses the different structures and resourcing requirements that are enabled by specific practice sizes, as this determines and constrains the type, scope and modes of research available to a given practice. The practices covered include: Woods Bagot Perkins + Will White AECOM UN Studio Shop Architects PLP Architecture Kieran Timberlake 3XN ONL AZPML Thomas Herzog + Partners Herreros Arquitectos Spacescape OCEAN Design Research Association By taking stock of the current shape of practice, the book provides essential information for professional architects who are integrating research into their practice.

Providing a source of vision for the revitalisation of the notional and actual elements of ground and envelope as vital spatial elements that can inform an integral architectural design, this book collects essays and projects that each contributes a particular element to what might constitute an eventually integrated and richly nuanced approach to spatial organisation. Projects include: Daniel Libeskind: Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany Daniel Libeskind: Osaka Folly 9, Osaka, Japan Van Berkel and Bos: Mobius House, Het Gooi, The Netherlands Thomas Leeser: In Ver(re)t.Ego House, Unbuilt Peter Eisenman: Church of the Year 2000, Unbuilt Paul Nelson: Suspended House, Unbuilt Clorindo Testa: The Bank of London and South America, 1959-1966, Buenos Aires, Argentina OCEAN: Apartment Block Frankfurter Strasse, Phase 01: 1998-99 Phase 02: 2011, Cologne, Germany Yves Klein: Air Architecture + Krefeld Exhibition, Krefeld, Germany Olafur Eliasson: The Weather Project, 2003-04, Tate Modern, London, UK Kengo Kuma: GC50th Anniversary Memorial Adalberto Libera: Villa Malaparte, Unbuilt, Capri, Italy John Lautner: Sheats Goldstein Residence, Unbuilt Paulo Mendes da Rocha: Brazilian Pavilion Osaka Expo, 1969-70, Osaka Expo, Japan Hensel, Limwatanakul, Kong and Bettum: Spreebogen I - A new Government Centre for Berlin Competition, 1992, Berlin, Germany Rudy, Roberge, Hoffman, Catoe and Koebel: Spreebogen II - A new Government Centre for Berlin Competition, 1992, Berlin, Germany Reiser + Umemoto + Jeffrey Kipnis: Water Garden, 1997, Columbus, Ohio, United States With an abundance of built and un-built key projects available, it is now possible to outline the contours of a new discourse.This book initiates a new beginning so that architecture can truly partake in the creation of heterogeneous space and culturally, socially and environmentally sustainable built environments.

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, Renee Cheng and Andrea J. Johnson, and Michael U. Hensel, and on the practices atelier d'architecture autogeree, 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 AElvstranden Utveckling.

Architectural practices worldwide have to deal with increasingly complex design requirements. How do practices acquire the ability to do so? The Changing Shape of Practice provides a handbook of examples for practices that wish to integrate more research into their work and a reference book for students that seek to prepare themselves for the changing shape of practice in architecture. It addresses the increasing integration of research undertaken in architectural practices of different sizes ranging from small to very large practices from the UK, USA, Europe and Asia. The book is organized according to the size of the practices which is significant in that it addresses the different structures and resourcing requirements that are enabled by specific practice sizes, as this determines and constrains the type, scope and modes of research available to a given practice. The practices covered include: Woods Bagot Perkins + Will White AECOM UN Studio Shop Architects PLP Architecture Kieran Timberlake 3XN ONL AZPML Thomas Herzog + Partners Herreros Arquitectos Spacescape OCEAN Design Research Association By taking stock of the current shape of practice, the book provides essential information for professional architects who are integrating research into their practice.

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, Renee Cheng and Andrea J. Johnson, and Michael U. Hensel, and on the practices atelier d'architecture autogeree, 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 AElvstranden Utveckling.

Providing a source of vision for the revitalisation of the notional and actual elements of ground and envelope as vital spatial elements that can inform an integral architectural design, this book collects essays and projects that each contributes a particular element to what might constitute an eventually integrated and richly nuanced approach to spatial organisation. Projects include: Daniel Libeskind: Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany Daniel Libeskind: Osaka Folly 9, Osaka, Japan Van Berkel and Bos: Mobius House, Het Gooi, The Netherlands Thomas Leeser: In Ver(re)t.Ego House, Unbuilt Peter Eisenman: Church of the Year 2000, Unbuilt Paul Nelson: Suspended House, Unbuilt Clorindo Testa: The Bank of London and South America, 1959-1966, Buenos Aires, Argentina OCEAN: Apartment Block Frankfurter Strasse, Phase 01: 1998-99 Phase 02: 2011, Cologne, Germany Yves Klein: Air Architecture + Krefeld Exhibition, Krefeld, Germany Olafur Eliasson: The Weather Project, 2003-04, Tate Modern, London, UK Kengo Kuma: GC50th Anniversary Memorial Adalberto Libera: Villa Malaparte, Unbuilt, Capri, Italy John Lautner: Sheats Goldstein Residence, Unbuilt Paulo Mendes da Rocha: Brazilian Pavilion Osaka Expo, 1969-70, Osaka Expo, Japan Hensel, Limwatanakul, Kong and Bettum: Spreebogen I - A new Government Centre for Berlin Competition, 1992, Berlin, Germany Rudy, Roberge, Hoffman, Catoe and Koebel: Spreebogen II - A new Government Centre for Berlin Competition, 1992, Berlin, Germany Reiser + Umemoto + Jeffrey Kipnis: Water Garden, 1997, Columbus, Ohio, United States With an abundance of built and un-built key projects available, it is now possible to outline the contours of a new discourse.This book initiates a new beginning so that architecture can truly partake in the creation of heterogeneous space and culturally, socially and environmentally sustainable built environments.

The Designing Environments book series addresses questions regarding necessary environmental transformation in the context of the fast-unfolding environmental crisis. This is done from a broad interdisciplinary perspective, examining the negative impact of human transformations of the environment and providing different inroads towards sustainable environmental transformation with net positive impact. Volume one of the Designing Environments book series brings together experts from different disciplines and often inter- and transdisciplinary contexts, who discuss specific approaches to overcoming the negative impact of the transformation of environments by humans. Across the 12 chapters of volume one, specific keywords recur that are indicative of shared insights and concerns. These include Anthropocene, climate change, complexity, critical zone, ecosystem services, and sustainability. Furthermore, interdisciplinary approaches to human–environment interactions, sustainability transitions, and socio-ecological systems take center stage and are discussed in relation to conceptual and methodological as well as societal and technological challenges and opportunities.

This book collects ground-breaking works on the actual and potential impact of big data and data-integrated design for resilient urban environments, including human- and ecology-centred perspectives. Comprehending and designing for urban social, demographic and environmental change is a complex task. Big data, data structuring, data analysis (i.e. AI and ML) and data-integrated design can play a significant role in advancing approaches to this task. The themes presented in this book include urban adaptation, urban morphology, urban mobility, urban ecosystems, urban climate, urban ecology and agriculture. Given the compound nature of complex sustainability problems, most chapters address the correlation between several of these themes. The book addresses practitioners, researchers and graduate students concerned with the rapidly increasing role of data in developing urban environments.