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Design as Research

 

The inaugural RIBA Research Symposium was held on 3 October 2005, focusing on the topic of architectural design pursued as a form of creative research, in the context of architectural offices and academic collaborations in the UK. 
  
The Symposium featured the work of contemporary architectural practitioners in the UK, engaged in inspiring research-oriented activities on topics that included simulation studies, new building systems and advanced geometries. 

 

Transcripts of the presentations are available below.

 

Symposium convenor

Brett Steele, Architectural Association

 

Session 1: User research and simulation

Frank Duffy, DEGW: Practice, Research and Architectural Knowledge
 

Alan Penn, UCL Space Syntax: The Architecture of Adaptive Environments: synthesising the real and the digital

Session 2: New construction and materials research

Patrick Schumacher, Zaha Hadid Architects: Digital Design and Construction of Organic Form

High Whitehead, Foster & Partners: Materials, Performance and Geometry - the Designer as Toolbuilder

Session 3: Advanced geometies and digital design systems

Charles Walker, Arup AGU: A Research-based Model as an Alternative to the Design-based Model of Architectural Invention

Alejandro Zaero-Polo, Foreign Office Architects: Guerrilla Research

Session 4: Conclusions, recent history of design as research

Brett Steele, Architectural Association: Design(-ing) Research: Architectural Experimentation as Innovation - a modern genealogy of architectural innovation