Emerging research agendas in architecture:
Organizational Research
Workshop Report

Michael Mounayar, AIA,
Architectural Research Centers Consortium, Ball State
Christine W. McEntee, EVP/CEO,
The American Institute of Architects
Michael R. Broshar, FAIA,
In\Vision Architecture
Stephan Castellanos, FAIA,
Quad Knopf
James Suehiro, AIA,
NBBJ

Stephan Castellanos:
Our group focused on organization and research. We started comparing ourselves to all the other professions out there, the doctors and lawyers. Why do we find ourselves in the situation where we have had this undervalued profession for a long time now, possibly for more than the past 25 to 30 years? Everything seems to be coming along now. For architecture, now is the time. We’ve never had a better opportunity to begin the reemergence of the profession, the problems that face society, and the problems we face in education and in training future architects for a number of different reasons, leadership being at the forefront.

We talked about climate change and the incredible issues surrounding that and the whole change that our business models, our practice models, must face. They are forcing us to think differently—and to think differently in a way that is no longer as much about the object of building as about performance; building performance; and, in a much greater way, the need for metrics, research, and data on actual evidence.

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