Moving architecture and flattening politics: examining adaptability through a narrative of design

Schmidt, Robert; Sage, Daniel; Eguchi, Toru; Dainty, Andrew R.J.

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“…Few studies have considered empirically how architectural practices are implicated in the making of time(s) and the consequences of this for architecture’s relations with the future. A notable exception is research by Schmidt et al (2012) concerning the production of ‘adaptability’ through building design. Defining adaptability as ‘the building’s capacity effectively to accommodate the evolving demands of its context’ (Schmidt et al, 2012, p. 75), they emphasise the importance (for example, in terms of environmental sustainability) of being able to understand how this property becomes engineered into/out of buildings.…”

Section: Sociology Architecture and Timementioning

confidence: 99%

“…A notable exception is research by Schmidt et al (2012) concerning the production of ‘adaptability’ through building design. Defining adaptability as ‘the building’s capacity effectively to accommodate the evolving demands of its context’ (Schmidt et al, 2012, p. 75), they emphasise the importance (for example, in terms of environmental sustainability) of being able to understand how this property becomes engineered into/out of buildings. Through ethnographic study of a particular building development, they demonstrate the micro-level negotiations (involving, for example, architects, the city council, trees, planning documents, regulations and developers) through which a building site becomes configured with regard to present concerns, closing down future possibilities for its use.…”

Section: Sociology Architecture and Timementioning

confidence: 99%

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Fixing the future? How architects make time in buildings for later life care

Beynon-Jones

Martin

Buse

et al. 2020

The Sociological Review

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Drawing on scholarship that explores the making of time, this article aims to develop sociological understandings of architecture’s relations with temporality. Commentary from within and outside architecture has often suggested that a sensitivity to time is missing from its practices (and indeed, that time is actively excluded from architecture). We argue that, rather than attempting to rectify a perceived absence of engagement with time in architecture, it is more fruitful to explore architecture as inevitably implicated in the making of time(s). Mobilising empirical material from a qualitative study of building design for residential care in later life in the UK, we illustrate various relations with, and visions of, the future that are produced through architectural practice. Rendering architecture’s time-making practices explicit, we suggest, makes it possible to reflect on whether, and to what extent, its time(s) could be done differently.

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Section: Sociology Architecture and Timementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Sociology Architecture and Timementioning

confidence: 99%

Fixing the future? How architects make time in buildings for later life care

Beynon-Jones

Martin

Buse

et al. 2020

The Sociological Review

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“…Other studies examine single moments of activity in order to tease out their internal dynamics (e.g. Houdart, 2008;Luck, 2012;Murphy, 2004Murphy, , 2011Schmidt et al, 2012), moments that have not yet included the preparation of a competition entry. We have seen little if any research in the recent anthropological tradition that has focused on a design competition in terms of everyday productive work.…”

Section: The Problem Of the Design Competition For Anthropologies Of mentioning

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Where design competitions matter: Architectural artefacts and discursive events

Gottschling

2017

Journal of Material Culture

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Recent ethnographies among professional architects have given us a novel version of the argument against architectural autonomy: architects work in a condition of entanglement not only with clients and markets, but also with the very objects through which architectural conception takes place. There is a tension between this view and one that surfaces within management scholarship on design competitions. In these studies, the design competition is a moment of architectural work in which architectural autonomy is uniquely pronounced, where the artistic statements of architects achieve a special efficacy. The author investigates the possibility that the design competition enacts a different sort of architectural entanglement than what we see in recent anthropologies. He considers two situations of architects working on design competitions, one in an architectural school in the UK and one at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture. He concludes that, in design competitions, discourse itself becomes subject to adjustment and iteration.

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“…By the time it reached this third episode however, the influence of the "negotiated order", a term coined by Strauss in his seminal study of hospitals and clinicians (Allen, 1997;Baszanger, 1998;Davies and Powell, 2007) to describe the consultants' power and influence, is much in evidence. The use of such power and influence is yet another matter that is not covered by the DQP and is a good example of the 'politics of design' in action -see Schmidt et al, (2012).…”

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Evaluating the design of hospitals within a practice order network

O'Keeffe

Thomson

Dainty

2015

Construction Management and Economics

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Design evaluation is a complex and rich social practice that is organised and distinguished by its practical understandings, rules, general understandings and teleoaffective structures. This praxiographic study of a major National Health Service (NHS) hospital project uses practice theory to investigate the concept of design evaluation as 'a practice'. By applying Theodore Schatzki's site ontology, design evaluation practices are revealed to respond to dynamic teleoaffective structures that highlight the role of both practical intelligibility and the intertwined impact of external policy stipulations. Through this theoretical lens, fresh insight into the actuality of NHS hospital design evaluation praxis is provided that questions some of the axioms upon which such processes are assumed to operate. In particular, the appropriateness of the decontextualised and deterministic processes currently found in UK Government design policy is questioned. It is posited that an approach to design evaluation grounded in Schatzki's practice theory has greater potential to improve the design quality of NHS healthcare buildings that could, in turn, improve patient healthcare outcomes.

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Moving architecture and flattening politics: examining adaptability through a narrative of design

Cited by 7 publications

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Fixing the future? How architects make time in buildings for later life care

Fixing the future? How architects make time in buildings for later life care

Where design competitions matter: Architectural artefacts and discursive events

Evaluating the design of hospitals within a practice order network

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