Design through Dialogue A Guide for Architects and Clients

by Franck, Karen A.; von Sommaruga Howard , Teresa

• ISBN13: 9780470721902
• ISBN10: 0470721901
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-02-15
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

The book makes visible and comprehensible aspects of the briefing and design process by examining different, overlapping activities that take place: relating, talking, exploring/discovering, and transforming. Material for the book is drawn from interviews with practicing architects, outstanding examples of design and collaboration from different countries, and concepts and research in psychotherapy, architecture and design studies. The authors also refer to their own experiences in briefing and design, teaching, and research. Throughout the book, concepts and examples from practice are linked to design outcomes in built projects. As design projects are becoming increasingly complex and necessarily collaborative, Design through Dialogue joins other recent initiatives in architecture and building construction to further partnering relationships between architects and clients.

Author Biography

Karen A. Franck is a professor in the College of Architecture and Design and the College of Science and Liberal Arts at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Previous books include Architecture from the Inside Out written with Bianca Lepori and Loose Space edited with Quentin Stevens.

Teresa von Sommaruga Howard is a practising architect, an organizational consultant and a group analytic psychotherapist with a specialty in conducting dialogue groups. She lectures and writes about the dynamics of large groups, culture and change and involving people in the design of their environments.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction 9

A Dialogue between Client and Architect 10

A Relational Approach 15

Our Dialogue 18

Thank You 20

Chapter 2 In Dialogue 25

Client and Architect 25

Briefing and Designing 36

The Brief and the Design 41

Use and Form 46

Inner Worlds and Outer Worlds 51

Chapter 3 Relating 61

Beginning the Relationship 62

Creating a ‘Good Enough’ Relationship 70

Maintaining a Facilitating Environment 81

Chapter 4 Talking 93

Creating Meaning Together 93

Talking in Groups 102

Attending to Silence 111

The Words Matter 115

Chapter 5 Exploring 129

Exploring as an Attitude 130

Exploring as Actions 136

Deciding What to Explore 146

Chapter 6 Transforming 165

Transforming at the Human Scale 166

Looking Beneath the Surface 169

Treating Type as a Question 172

Scrutinizing Form and Use 182

Transforming through Dialogue 187

Architects and Clients 196

Bibliography 198

Index 205

Image credits 208