- Drawing and Thinking
- Why Brexit will see a glass half-full emptied
- Long Live the Office
- Making shops exciting again: Lessons from the Nordics (part 3)
- Making shops exciting again: Lessons from the Nordics (part 2)
- Making shops exciting again: Lessons from the Nordics (part 1)
- The Architecture Drawing Prize Exhibition Review
- Drawing Architecture
- The art of an art historian
- World-class architecture
- Make models: The Luna
- The Make Charter
- Art Editor’s picks
- Drawing to an end?
- Make models: Portsoken Pavilion
- Disappearing Here – On perspective and other kinds of space
- My time with the BCO
- Employee ownership
- Plein air in the digital age
- The future of bespoke HQs
- Make models: Grosvenor Waterside
- The tools of drawing
- Above and beyond
- The call of the wild
- The future is bright but not the same
- A “Plan in Impossible Perspective”
- Mary, queen of hotels
- The Hollow Man: poetry of drawing
- Trecento re-enactment
- Make models: LSQ London
- Reporting from Berlin
- Advocating sustainable facade design
- Hand-drawing, the digital (and the archive)
- Drawing as an architect’s tool
- Don’t take a pop at POPS
- Stefan Davidovici – green Mars architect
- The role of the concept sketch
- Make models: an urban rail station
- How drawing made architecture
- Full court press
- Ken Shuttleworth on drawing
- Make models: FC Barcelona’s Nou Palau Blaugrana
- Hotels by Make
- Make calls for a cultural shift in industry’s approach to fire safety
- When drawing becomes architecture
- The Architecture Drawing Prize
- Lessons on future office design from Asia Pacific
- Make models: Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
- City-making and Sadiq
- Digital Danube
- 2036: A floor space odyssey
- The green tiger
- The human office
- London refocused
- Designing in Sydney
- Cycle design for the workplace
- Harold on tour
- Are you VReady?
- Property’s rising stars on the future of the industry
- UK Employee Ownership Day 2016
- Letter from Hong Kong
- Long life, loose fit
- Unique cities – questions of identity
- Relevant cities
- Greener cities
- Completing the architecture
- BIM
- The future of architecture – Gavin Mullan
- The future of architecture – Andrew Taylor
- The future of architecture – Alejandro Nieto
- Put a lid on it
- The future of architecture – Jet Chu
- The importance of post-occupancy evaluation for our future built environment
- Bricks – not just for house builders
- The future of architecture – Bill Webb
- Designing for a liveable city
- The future of architecture – Rebecca Woffenden
- The future of architecture – Matthew Bugg
- The future of architecture – Robert Lunn
- The future of architecture – David Patterson
- The future of architecture – Katy Ghahremani
- Safer streets for all
- Responsible resourcing should be an integral part of every project
- Developing a design for the facade of 7-10 Hanover Square
- Curious Sir Christopher Wren
- The socio-economic value of people-focused cities
- Responsible sourcing starts with design
- Designing in the City of Westminster
- Is off-site manufacture the answer?
- Rolled gold
- How to make a fine suit
- Just a game?
- Judo’s big fight
- Hand-to-hand combat
- Make models: electricity pylon competition
We asked ten architects – each of whom joined Make in a different year since 2004 – to write about how they see architecture and the built environment changing over the next ten years. Here are their responses.
With the recent rise in Design and Build contracts and other forms of procurement, the role of architects in the construction industry has undergone a dramatic shift. Our emphasis is gradually becoming front-end and it’s becoming harder to retain control of the detail and final design of our buildings. Architects should start to look at the services we offer clients and try to maximise where we can add value to the process, and keep our involvement in schemes for as long as possible to ensure the outcome matches our expectations. We should offer a service that embraces the client’s broader aims and goes beyond just the ‘building’. By diversifying into areas such as branding, product design and interior design, we will be able to offer clients more for their money and have greater input into the final inhabited environment.
As technologies in both the construction and design industries rapidly develop and change, the way we work needs to adapt. The tools the architect employs in the future will be based much more in the digital world, with BIM (Building Information Modelling) featuring heavily. However, while these new technologies play a significant role in the detailed stages of a project, we must not lose the more traditional skills and methods of design – such as sketching and model-making – that help the initial designs develop.
From a woman’s point of view, the construction industry is slowly becoming less dominated by men and more projects have multiple women as key members of the design team, rather than just being on the periphery. With architectural practices gradually embracing flexible working hours, women can start to achieve greater balance in their family and professional lives and I’m optimistic that this can only get better in the future.
With architectural practices gradually embracing flexible working hours, women can start to achieve greater balance in their family and professional lives