Architectural Design Management

Architectural Design Management involves the strategic design, organisation, and control of architectural and constructional design processes, with the objective of creating value through design: i.e. facilitating the creation of buildings with added value (and added architectural value) for all those directly or indirectly concerned with them.

The remit of the flexible chair in Architectural Design Management is to monitor changes in building practice in the area of management issues in the design phase, and to transpose them to scientific research and teaching questions. These are divided into four main themes: 1. theory and modelling focused on the measurement and management of architectural and constructional values; 2. design strategies for design processes and their management; 3. the development and empirical validation of methods, techniques and instruments for the strategic design, organisation and control of design processes; and, 4. redesign architectural practice.


· Architectural Design Management in Research