Design Added Value: How Design Increases Value for Architects and Engineers - Hardcover

Akın, Ömer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3030288595 ISBN 13: 9783030288594

Publisher: Springer, 2021

Synopsis

Design has intrinsic, economic value. To make this value tangible, design features of buildings need to be explored, measured, and taken into account when initiating projects and financing their construction. It is as calculable as the extrinsic value of a project. However, we need concepts, strategies, methods, techniques, and tools to do just that. 

 

The Value Based Design approach and Design-Added Value (D-AV) methodology in this book enables architects, engineers, contractors and owner-clients of buildings to benefit from extraordinary design and construction features. It explains the rationale and motivation for D-AV methodology, outlines and illustrates this methodology with examples, provides complete and detailed examples of how the key analysis techniques work through historical case studies, and describes specific methods used in application of the D-AV methodology, such as Bayesian statistics, cost benefit analysis, pairwise comparison techniques, cognitive walkthroughs, and optimization.

About this title

About the Author

Ömer Akın, PhD, AIA was Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Courtesy Faculty in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA.

 

Dr. Akın was also CEO of Architectural Design Associates (ADA), Inc. ADA publishes professional texts as well as fiction, including the following titles: Representation and Architecture (1982), Psychology of Architectural Design (1986, 1989), Generative CAD Systems (2005), A Cartesian Approach to Design Rationality (2006), Embedded Commissioning (2011) and Ethical Decision Making in Architecture (2018). His publishers include Information Dynamics Inc., Pion, Inc., Carnegie Mellon University Press, METU Press, Artech House, Inc., Springer, and CreateSpace, Inc.

 

Dr. Akin served as Professor of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, since 1978. He was a well-published researcher with several hundred reviewed publications, and texts that include the titles cited above among others. His research interests included design cognition, computer aided design, case-based design instruction, ethical decision making, value-based design, building commissioning, and automated design requirement management. He has also served as the Head of the School of Architecture and the director of the graduate programs.

From the Back Cover

Design has intrinsic, economic value. To make this value tangible, design features of buildings need to be explored, measured, and taken into account when initiating projects and financing their construction. It is as calculable as the extrinsic value of a project. However, we need concepts, strategies, methods, techniques, and tools to do just that. 

 

The Value Based Design approach and Design-Added Value (D-AV) methodology in this book enables architects, engineers, contractors and owner-clients of buildings to benefit from extraordinary design and construction features. It explains the rationale and motivation for D-AV methodology, outlines and illustrates this methodology with examples, provides complete and detailed examples of how the key analysis techniques work through historical case studies, and describes specific methods used in application of the D-AV methodology, such as Bayesian statistics, cost benefit analysis, pairwise comparison techniques, cognitive walkthroughs, and optimization.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030288595
• ISBN 13: 9783030288594
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 246