One option is concretism, which in keeping with standard causal efficacy claims and expressed intentions of architects, clients, and users—suggests that architectural objects are either built structures or, on one variant, otherwise physically instantiated designs for such structures (such as models).
Investigating architect and user interaction revealed that tacit knowledge can be made explicit and the difficulty of generalising user-needs from user statements.
Some new research from Google gives architects, and end users, something to worry about.
The ways that we see and acknowledge design in the interactions between architects and resident users is examined, to recover the interactional practices through which mundane reasoning concerning the spatial properties of a housing scheme were articulated and organised at a design event.
So it was hugely encouraging to hear of a number of collaborations between architects, service providers and users, resulting in some quite radical designs for inpatient settings.
The paper is an investigation of the exchange of ideas and information between an architect and building users in the early stages of the building design process before the design brief or any drawings have been produced.
A London office was opened last summer, and the UK network now numbers 15,000 tradespeople, designers and architects, and 1.5 million users.
RH provided insights into user group involvement in the EPS2 planning and development by interviewing the relevant technical architects and making available user group meeting minutes.
Universal design was first conceptualized by Mace (an architect and wheelchair user), Hardie, and Plaice (1991) as the principle that products and environments should be designed to be usable by all people without the need for adaptation or specialized design.
