Architectural programming is the key to successful design. It is the crucial process of gathering, organizing, and assessing a client's building-use information. This process includes design concepts and program objectives ... staff and employee projections ... current and future space requirements ... adjacencies and relationships ... equipment and utility requirements ... project cost ... and more. This unique book and diskette provide architects, engineers, facilities managers, corporate and institutional administrators, and others with an effective method for gathering and assessing data needed to successfully design virtually any type of building - from office towers and educational facilities to laboratories and medical facilities.

Informationssammlung, Datenanalyse und Entwicklung eines Konzepts - das sind die wesentlichen Teilschritte der Definition eines architektonischen Problems, ob es sich nun um den Neubau eines Wohnhauses oder die Renovierung eines Bürogebäudes handelt. Und ein sorgfältig erstelltes Programm ist die Voraussetzung für den Erfolg eines jeden Projektes! Geschrieben von einer erfahrenen Designerin und Dozentin, behandelt dieses Buch im 1. Teil die theoretische und im 2. Teil die praktische Seite. Außerdem gibt es umfassende Informationen zu Techniken und neuen Entwicklungen (z.B. Videodatenanalyse) sowie praktische Tips und mehr als 200 Zeichnungen und Diagramme zur Veranschaulichung des Textes. (01/99)

First published in 1977, this volume was intended as a sourcebook for designers and attempts to specify the ingredients necessary to develop a design program rather than postulate a model program for which no consensus exists. As such it filled a void in the existing literature which seldom covered programming with much depth and provides technical aids to guide designers. The author attempts to integrate the pioneering contributions from others in order to identify the substance of programming for designers and represents a culling of the strategies and techniques from the social, behavioural and management sciences — building on the developing efforts of other disciplines.