Demystifying Architectural Research

Conclusion

We wanted to create a book that showed the diverse nature of architectural research practice across the UK as an inspiration to others. It has been a pleasure in doing so to tease out the often unsung, but deeply impressive, research skills of professionals working at the top of their game. It has been our aim to illustrate that if the work of innovative practitioners can be translated into the more formal interdisciplinary language of research, then architectural research practice will be alive and well.

In 2012 we undertook a survey of research in practice that revealed that 43 per cent of practitioners believed themselves to be ...