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Evaluating Universal Building Design
How would you assess whether universal design principles were incorporated in a building?
Corporate Architecture: Building a Brand
This book is about how the fashion, financial, telecommunications, and automotive industries are using architectural design worldwide to communicate their brands.
The Design Process: Does Being in The Same Room Matter?
Steve Garner studied the difference in sketching use for two sets of design teams, one in the same room with regular graphic media, and one paired by voice and electronic drawing tablet.
Programming Space & Operating Costs: Trade-offs
Moleski provides information useful for determining the size of a space.
The Beholder’s Eye: Architects and Lay Critics
Graham Brown and Robert Gifford investigated how architects and non-architects rated colored slides of late-twentieth-century office buildings.
Growing Awareness of Natural Fractals
Awareness of the value of designers’ use of visual and audio natural fractal patterns is growing among scientists and informed design clients.
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices
Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria of the Harvard Business School conclude in Driven that human behavior results from the interplay among four subconscious drives.
How Clients Can Learn From Post-Occupancy Evaluations
Designers often like to review a project’s performance after completion because it provides information that can help perfect the design, or add value to the firm’s next project. Getting a client to recognize the value of such a review can be more difficult, because the value to the client is harder to quantify. Yet, a post-occupancy evaluation (POE) can facilitate organizational learning by the clients that sponsor it. How can this occur?
Classic Article: Measuring Subjective Experiences
Techniques for measuring subjective experience have become classic.
Classic Article - Survey Methodology
Creating good rating scales for surveys can be tricky.

