Architecture in the Making: Architecture as a Making Discipline and Material Practice
Research Project, 2011
– 2017
The architectural profession is facing new challenges: Sustainable development promotes advanced building technology; the re-use of the existing building stock will be an increasingly important task; urban development have to integrate different fields of knowledge; advanced ICT tools influence design practice and modes of production. Current challenges represent opportunities for the architectural profession in creating sustainable built environment, and the potential of architectural thinking in managing complexity can contribute to research. For this we need to develop integrated theories and methods, clearly based in architecture as a discipline, in which design thinking stands at the centre. This strong research environment defines the built environment as a material culture, and the architectural profession as a "making discipline". From this perspective, connecting to sustainable development, four research themes are identified: "Material mechanisms", "History"¸ "Investigative modelling", and "Alteration". It assembles a unique set of leading Swedish researchers, international scholars and architectural practitioners, to create a dynamic research platform promoting the potential of architectural thinking in research on complex issues in built environments. Concentrated research projects will be combined with externally oriented activities which will make significant contributions to theories and methods in architectural research as well as practice.
Participants
Fredrik Nilsson (contact)
Architecture
Michael Asgaard Andersen
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Architectural theory and methods
Monica Billger
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Architectural theory and methods
Claes Caldenby
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Architectural theory and methods
Karel Deckers
Unknown organization
Halina Dunin-Woyseth von Turow
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Architectural theory and methods
Catharina Dyrssen
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Urban Design and Planning
Paula Femenias
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Building Design
Julia Fredriksson
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Urban Design and Planning
Michael U. Hensel
Unknown organization
Nel Janssens
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Architectural theory and methods
Daniel Koch
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Building Design
Johan Liekens
Unknown organization
Johan Linton
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Architectural theory and methods
Frans Magnusson
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Architectural theory and methods
Lars Marcus
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Urban Design and Planning
Stig Anton Nielsen
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Architectural theory and methods
Daniel Norell
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Architectural theory and methods
Karl-Gunnar Olsson
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Architectural theory and methods
Anna Maria Orrù
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Urban Design and Planning
Atli Magnus Seelow
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Architectural theory and methods
Andrej Slavik
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Architectural theory and methods
Beata Stahre Wästberg
Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Interaction Design and Software Engineering
Liane Thuvander
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Architectural theory and methods
Malgorzata Zboinska
Chalmers, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Architectural theory and methods
Collaborations
Lund University
Lund, Sweden
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Stockholm, Sweden
Umeå University
Umeå, Sweden
Funding
Formas
Project ID: 259-2011-75
Funding Chalmers participation during 2011–2017
Related Areas of Advance and Infrastructure
Sustainable development
Driving Forces
Building Futures (2010-2018)
Areas of Advance
Innovation and entrepreneurship
Driving Forces