Emerging research agendas in architecture:
Cultural Research
Workshop Report

David Brown,
University of Illinois Chicago (Lead)
Shahin Vassigh,
University at Buffalo
Bruce Blackmer, FAIA,
NAC Architecture, NAAB
Pam Loeffelman, AIA,
Perkins Eastman Architects PC
Edward Vidlak, AIA,
Leo A. Daly

David Brown:
We stuck with culture and focused on trying to develop a working model for cultural research. We went through some of the larger questions that had been raised in debate: workforce development, disaster mediation, plans to change energy and building production, health care throughout the city’s aging infrastructure, water availability, urbanization, and demographics. Then we investigated which aspects cultural research could begin to affect in terms of climate change—subcategories of climate change such as disaster mediation, energy in building production, growth of cities, demographics, relationship to urbanization, and other subcategories.

From there, we started to think through means of culture-related research that might offer a model. We also considered various trends principally related to demographics. Implied in this was consideration of groups that architects might begin to affiliate themselves and collaborate with, such as anthropologists, planners, behavioral scientists, psychologists, political scientists, and economists.

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