Description
Architecture is a comprehensive field of practice existing within dynamic, social, organizational, economic, professional and cognitive contexts. The course aims to equip students with the knowledge, skill and judgment needed to fit an architect for his/her professional duties, and to understand how an office organization and a design project are managed for this purpose.
This course focuses on the organizational and managerial issues to carry an architectural design from concept to implementation. It explores principles and concepts essential to managing projects applied to a variety of design and project delivery cases. Each class contains a case study that describes the real experience of practicing architects and project teams. Cases focus on specialized practice; the role of the architect in new forms of project delivery; resolving design conflicts between the community, project team and the client;, collaboration; making contractors perform;, working in another country; the u