This paper explores three connected questions: What differentiates and connects contemporary international live projects? What live project models and strategies have emerged to date? What influence are live projects having on architectural education, research and practice? Ordering live projects by singular categories such as outcome or motive fail to acknowledge their complexity or to uncover new models and strategies. Quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis are developed to cope with multiple motivations and actors. The analyses demonstrates that human and physical resources and contexts have the greatest influence on diversity of live project models and strategies. The expertise of the live project participants is capable of overcoming contextual resource limitations via design ingenuity. A Taxonomy has been developed to illustrate the relationship between these factors. This improved understanding of how live project models and strategies work, allows us to identify the ways in which they are influencing contemporary architectural education, research and practice.
Anderson, Jane
Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment\School of Architecture
Year of publication: 2017Date of RADAR deposit: 2017-03-15