Design to Value: The architecture of holistic design and creative technology

Design to Value offers a new approach to the design and construction of the built environment that emphasizes innovation, stakeholder engagement, and sustainability. It challenges architects and the industry to think differently about how value is generated, enhanced, and retained, providing a method that will improve outcomes for architects, clients, industries, and society.

Format: Hardback
Length: 216 pages
Publication date: 01 October 2022
Publisher: RIBA Publishing

Design to Value (DtV) is a transformative approach to the built environment that emphasizes the importance of a holistic and process-oriented approach to design and construction. While it has been widely adopted in the manufacturing industries, its potential in architecture, engineering, and construction is only beginning to be realized. DtV challenges designers to lead the way in creating more innovative and stakeholder-centric analyses, workflows, construction techniques, and products. By adopting architectural thinking, value in the built environment can be maximized.

DtV rejects the current professional services model of architecture and seeks to create deep and lasting impacts on industry, society, and the planet. The traditional procurement routes in architecture and construction are not sustainable, and DtV outlines a new path for informed design processes.

Bryden Wood, a leading international expert in Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) and the Platform approach to Design for Manufacture and Assembly (P-DfMA), has spent the last fifteen years developing DtV as part of a new framework for the future of the design and construction industry. In this essential book, DtV challenges architects and the wider industry to think differently about how value is generated, enhanced, and retained in the built realm, providing a method that will improve outcomes for architects, clients, industries, and society.

Architects must break habitual processes and adopt new approaches to build better systems, better buildings, and better futures. DtV offers over 125 images, including photographs, sketches, and diagrams, as well as over 20 international case studies from Canada, France, India, Italy, Japan, Saudi Arabia, and the USA. The book features projects from leading practices such as Atelier Bow-Wow, BIG, David Miller Architects, and Kieran Timber, showcasing the practical applications of DtV in the real world.

In conclusion, Design to Value is a transformative approach to the built environment that emphasizes the importance of process, innovation, and stakeholder-centricity. By adopting architectural thinking and breaking habitual processes, architects can create better systems, better buildings, and better futures. DtV offers a valuable resource for architects, clients, industries, and society, as it challenges the status quo
quo and outlines a new path for informed design processes.

Dimension: 210 x 210 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781914124006