Design Informed: Driving Innovation with Evidence-Based Design

Chapter 6. The 2005 Latrobe Fellowship

	"Today's design and construction environment is extraordinarily complex. Clients have to make an increasing number of decisions that have lasting impact on both their operations and communities. For architects to contribute value to these clients, we have to seize the opportunity to move beyond intuition and to provide rigorously developed evidence about predictive relationships between design and human response. Our clients will benefit most from the design process if we inform decisions with credible (scientific) research."
	--—Gordon Chong, FAIA, Project Director, 2005 Latrobe Fellowship

Introduction

This book is about a transformation occurring in the architectural profession. The previous chapters exemplify how developing and applying evidence can enhance creative design, particularly in the realms of building and environmental science. Most architects, by virtue of traditional architectural education and practice, can relate to the extraordinary engineering and formal aspects of this achievement.

Figure 6.1. A Future Profession That Designs Places That Enhance Human Performance

The future profession we envision will be equally effective in creating architecture that enhances human performance. As specifically illustrated in some of the work ...