Researcher's Information

Professor

HIRAO, Kazuhiro

Architecture and Urban Design

Architectural design process

The concept and academic field of a “design process” exists with architecture and product design. It is a concept that evolved in the US and Germany in the 1960s, with researches on it having been carried out in the fields of industrial and architecture design. 
Design cannot be promoted without a plan and is generally implemented with targets: (1) efficient allocation of time, (2) generation of ingenious ideas, (3) smooth formation of agreement with client/transmission of the intent of the design, (4) expressive presentation etc according to the plan. Performance can be improved by intentionally following these processes toward a specific result. From the methodology given above we focus on the expression technique such as in making sketches and invocation via the means of the imagination that are evolving in the planning field etc and carrying out research on verifying the efficiency of the processes using actual projects and competitions.
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