Evidencing and Communicating the Value of Architects

该项目与英国皇家建筑师协会（RIBA）密切合作，旨在证明和传达建筑师的价值-在皇家建筑协会认可的学校完成七年必要培训的专业人士。为了做到这一点，我们需要促进行业内的文化变革，从隐性价值观和“阿奇斯皮克”到证据、研究和清晰的沟通。我们特别强调的是家庭和社区的社会价值，但该项目将更广泛地适用于建筑环境的其他领域。很少有人知道，建筑师很少参与我们的建筑环境的生产。大约30%的规划申请是由建筑师提出的，只有30%的建筑专业学生能够获得建筑师资格，建筑师的平均工资是3.6万英镑，大多数建筑师受雇于建筑承包商。建筑师已经变得非常边缘化，对这个职业的负面看法也没有帮助。建筑师们已经接受了七年的专门培训，使他们能够很好地帮助解决“大社会挑战”的空间维度，他们如何更多地参与到住宅和社区的生产中？在英国，人们很少了解建筑技能给建筑环境带来的好处——战略、创造性、空间思维——这意味着建筑师很少有机会利用他们苦心经营、耗资巨大的技能来造福社会。结果是每个人都能看到的，但最引人注目的是该地区极差的体量房屋建筑质量。该项目建立在AHRC之前的两个项目——创意经济中的家庭改善知识交流和家庭和社区建筑的文化价值（CVoA）——的基础上，这两个项目使我们能够在这一背景下提出一个证明价值的框架。这些项目也让我们相信，有必要说服那些拥有最大资源的商业客户来雇佣架构师。该项目从不同的角度探索了建筑师的形象和价值，从英国的专业本身开始，然后是可能雇佣他们的商业客户，以及评估他们工作的非建筑师学者（有时委托建筑）。这项研究将用于向对跨学科工作感兴趣的学者开放建筑领域。我们还将与欧洲各地的学者合作，了解他们自己国家对该领域的看法。产出也同样多样化，包括一份关于入住后评估途径的报告、一份客户建筑师指南、一本关于建筑专业跨文化认知的编辑书和一本关于建筑为什么重要的书。我们也非常关注公众对建筑师的看法，这是我们在CVoA项目中研究的一个高度复杂的领域，但我们选择在这里关注那些最有可能委托或评估建筑师的人，因为这是对职业产生最直接影响的方式。这个领导研究员项目是由英国皇家建筑师协会技术研究主任Anne Dye领导的一个更广泛的为期三年的价值项目的一部分，PI Samuel与她有着成熟的研究关系。PI Samuel是英国皇家建筑师协会当选的理事会成员，也是其研究与创新小组和住房小组的成员，因此他很好地定位于通过英国皇家建筑师协会的建筑研究实践来促进价值的证明。塞缪尔也是谢菲尔德大学社会科学学院跨学科家庭研究小组的负责人。领导研究员项目将使该小组的研究能力发展到欧洲和其他地区。

The aim of this Leadership Fellow project, to be completed in close collaboration with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is to evidence and communicate the value of Architects - professionals who have completed the seven years requisite training at Royal Institute of Architecture accredited schools. In order to do this we need to facilitate a cultural change within the profession from tacit values and 'Archispeak' to evidence, research and clear communication. Our particular emphasis is on social value in the context of homes and neighbourhoods, but the project will have wider applicability to other sectors of the built environment. It is not widely known that architects have very little involvement in the production of our built environment. Some 30% of planning applications are by architects, only 30% of architecture students go on to qualify as architects and the average pay of an architect is £36K with the majority of architects being employed by building contractors. Architects have become extremely marginal, not helped by negative perceptions of the profession. How can architects, who have had seven years of dedicated training making them well suited to help address spatial dimensions of the 'Grand Societal Challenges', be more included in the production of homes and neighbourhoods? In the UK there is very little understanding of the benefits that architectural skillset bring to the built environment - strategic, creative, spatial thinking - meaning that architects rarely have the chance to utilise their painstakingly and expensively developed skill set for the benefit of society. The results are there for everyone to see but are most notable in the extremely poor quality of Volume House Building in the regions. This project builds on two previous AHRC projects Home Improvements Knowledge Exchange in the Creative Economy and The Cultural Value of Architecture in Homes and Neighbourhoods (CVoA) which allowed us to propose a framework for evidencing value in this context. These projects also persuaded us of the need to convince those business clients with the greatest resources at their disposal of the need to employ Architects.The project explores the image and value of Architects from a range of different viewpoints, beginning with the UK profession itself before moving on to the business clients who might employ them and to the non-architect Academics who assess their work (and sometimes commission buildings). The research will be used to open up the field of Architecture to academics interested in interdisciplinary work. We will also work with academics across Europe to develop an understanding of the perception of the field in their own countries. The outputs are similarly diverse, including a report on Pathways to Post Occupancy Evaluation, a Client's Guide to Architects, an edited book on cross cultural perceptions of the architecture profession and a book on Why Architecture Matters. We are also deeply concerned with public perceptions of Architects, a highly complex area that we examined in the CVoA project, but have chosen here to focus on those most likely to commission or evaluate Architects as this is the way to achieve the most immediate impact on the profession.This Leader Fellow project forms part of a wider three year project on Value led by Anne Dye, Director of Technical Research at the RIBA with whom the PI Samuel has a mature research relationship. The PI Samuel is an elected Council member at the RIBA and a member of its Research and Innovation Group and Housing Group and is therefore well positioned to promote the evidencing of value through Architecture Research Practice at the RIBA. Samuel is also leader of the interdisciplinary Home research group in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Sheffield. The Leader Fellow project will enable to develop the research capacity of this group into Europe and beyond.