Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This practical, hands on introduction guides you through the basics of undertaking research in day-to-day architectural practice helping you to exploit the growing opportunities on offer. It explores how developing a research specialism can improve the quality of your projects, help to define your brand and generate new channels of revenue with innovative services for clients.

The text is divided into four sections focussing on different types of Architecture Research Practice; commercial, cultural, social and technology. Each section includes a series of inspiring case studies written by practitioners themselves on the way in which research benefits their business as well as an essay by an expert which sets these projects in their methodological context. In this way the book highlights the broad spectrum of research being undertaken and the practical implications for the practice and their projects.

This is designed for architects and practices who want to develop a clear specialism that adds brand value and will enable them to access new funding streams as well as students of architecture who are getting to grips with architectural research.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Supporter (p. v)
• Foreword (p. vii)
• Introduction (p. ix)
• About the Editors (p. xii)
• Acknowledgements (p. xiii)
• Part 1 Technological Research Practice (p. 1)
• Chapter 1 Demystifying Technological Research Methods (p. 3)
• Chapter 2 User Engagement and Technological Selection in an Innovative Green School Building (p. 11)
• Chapter 3 Monitoring Housing in Use (p. 15)
• Chapter 4 Adapt and Save: Climate Adaptation Strategies (p. 19)
• Chapter 5 Information Systems for Technical Design (p. 25)
• Chapter 6 Sustainable Building Materials for Commercial Developments (p. 31)
• Chapter 7 Permeable Insulation and Power (p. 35)
• Part 2 Social Research Practice (p. 40)
• Chapter 8 Demystifying Social Research Methods
• Chapter 9 Education and Engagement (p. 51)
• Chapter 10 Co-Design for New Lifestyles (p. 55)
• Chapter 11 Visioning Brentford Lockwest (p. 61)
• Chapter 12 Experimental Residential (p. 67)
• Chapter 13 Bridging Thermal Inequality in Glasgow (p. 73)
• Part 3 Cultural Research practice (p. 78)
• Chapter 14 Demystifying Cultural Research Methods (p. 81)
• Chapter 15 Pop-Up Buildings in the City (p. 87)
• Chapter 16 Market Meditations (p. 91)
• Chapter 17 Building with Landscape (p. 97)
• Chapter 18 Sculpture and Architecture in the Modern City (p. 103)
• Chapter 19 The Taste for Neo-Vernacular Housing (p. 109)
• Part 4 Commercial Research Practice (p. 114)
• Chapter 20 Demystifying Commercial Research Methods (p. 117)
• Chapter 21 Working as an Expert Witness (p. 127)
• Chapter 22 Marketing Architects (p. 133)
• Chapter 23 Procurement (p. 139)
• Conclusion (p. 145)
• Bibliography (p. 151)
• Useful Resources (p. 156)
• Credits (p. 159)
• Index (p. 160)