Culture as a component of complexity in construction
Culture as a component of complexity in construction
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文化是建筑复杂性的一个组成部分
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2010
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A. Liu
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R. Fellows;A. Liu
文化和建筑都被认为是复杂的-文化与人类行为有关，甚至支配人类行为，而建筑是人类活动在设计、生产、占用、使用和处置主要人工制品（建筑物和基础设施）方面发生的背景。事实上，建筑一直受到各种复杂性的定义和分类，以帮助分析其产出的实现和使用过程，包括考虑管理和技术的复杂性。从历史上看，对复杂建筑项目构成的直观理解是由天真的客观衡量方法补充的-例如建筑服务的比例成本。然而，这些方法未能很好地帮助理解实现的投入、流程内的转变和由此产生的业绩产出之间的关系。继混沌理论之后，新兴的复杂性理论领域强调系统内部的联系和“软”元素，具有提供洞察力的巨大潜力。因此，本文探讨文化的背景下，并应用到建筑组织和项目的复杂性理论的角度，以帮助确定一个更详细的研究议程，希望通过这种模式获得更大的理解。
Both culture and construction have been suggested to be complex – culture as relating to, even governing, human behaviour and construction as a context in which human activities occur in the design, production, occupation, and use and disposal of major artefacts: buildings and infrastructure. Indeed, construction has been subject to various definitions and categorisations of complexity to assist analysis of the processes employed in the realisation and use of its outputs; including consideration of managerial and technical complexity. Historically, intuitive understanding of what constitute complex construction projects was supplemented with naïve objective measurements – such as the proportionate cost of building services. However, such approaches have failed to be very helpful in gaining understanding of the relationships between inputs to the realisations, the transformations within the processes and the resultant performance outputs. Following on from chaos theory, the emerging field of complexity theory, with its emphasis on linkages within systems and the ‘softer’ elements, has significant potential for providing insights. Hence, this paper examines culture in the context of and application to construction organisations and projects using the perspectives of complexity theory towards helping to determine a more detailed research agenda in the hope of gaining significantly greater understanding through this paradigm.