The Designer’s Field Guide to Collaboration provides practitioners and students with the tools necessary to collaborate effectively with a wide variety of partners in an increasingly socially complex and technology-driven design environment. Beautifully illustrated with color images; the book draws on the expertise of top professionals in the allied fields of architecture; landscape architecture; engineering and construction management; and brings to bear research from diverse disciplines such as software development; organizational behavior; and outdoor leadership training. Chapters examine emerging and best practices for effective team building; structuring workflows; enhancing communication; managing conflict; and developing collective vision––all to ensure the highest standards of design excellence.Case studies detail and reflect on the collaborative processes used to create award-winning projects by Studio Gang; Perkins+Will; Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects | Partners; Gensler; CDR Studio; Mahlum Architects; In.Site:Architecture; and Thornton Tomasetti’s Core Studio. The book also provides pragmatic ideas and formal exercises for brainstorming productively; evaluating ideas; communicating effectively; and offering feedback.By emphasizing the productive influence and creative possibilities of collaboration within the changing landscape of architectural production; the book proposes how these practices can be taught in architecture school and expanded in practice. In a changing world that presents increasingly complex challenges; optimizing these collaborative skills will prove not only necessary; but crucial to the process of creating advanced architecture.
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