£19.99
Add to basket| Price in Euros | €23.35 |
| Price in USD | $30.19 |
| Select your currency | |
| Calculated price | |
FREE UK Postage for online orders over £60
Terms and conditions applyLeading the Team: An Architects Guide to Design Management
Dale Sinclair
See the chapters and introductory pages of Leading the Team
Product details
Format: Book
Pages: 128
Publisher: RIBA Publishing
Date Published: Jun 2011
Stock Code: 74336
ISBN: 9781859463925
Binding: Paperback
Extras
Rating
Total votes: 18
Description
Effective design management presents a challenge and an opportunity for architects. How are they to manage increasingly-complex teams of consultants as well as increasingly-iterative design processes, while still maximising creativity? This clear guide sets out simple, practical processes which do exactly that.
Introducing the ‘Eight Essential Design Management Tools’, it is packed with simple, practical ways that the design process can be planned, organised, and managed, including tactics and ‘soft skills’ for team-leaders, advice on cost, risk, and procurement, as well as the key considerations for reconciling a complexiterative design programme against the RIBA Plan of Work.
This short book will help students to senior architects looking to improve how their design teams harness efficient, switched on management skills to design high-quality buildings on time and on budget.
Related Items
Architect's Pocket Book: 4th edition
This handy pocket book brings together a wealth of useful information that architects need on a daily basis - on site or in the studio. The book...
£20.99
Add to basket
The Architect in Practice: 10th edition
The Architect in Practice was first published in 1952. Originally written by a quantity surveyor and an architect it has remained, through its nine...
£39.99
Add to basket
Featured Reviews
Geoff Wilkinson, columnist for Architects Journal
While there are many books devoted to architectural design and practice management, there are very few that focus on the management of the process of architectural design. This new book by Dale Sinclair sets out to address that issue and give Architects the confidence that they have the skills necessary to manage projects successfully.
The lead consultant role was traditionally performed by the Architect, but new procurement routes, increased numbers of consultants, and shorter project timescales have seen the Architect lose out on this role (and the fees it can generate) to a new breed of 'project managers'.
The book starts out by addressing the various roles of the parties, team structures and risk management. These chapters are well arranged and key terms are clearly highlighted and explained within the text. For example the author goes to some length to explain the difference between co-ordinate and co-ordination, and how this can be achieved at each of the key RIBA design stages. The book gives a useful (and realistic) guide to collaborative working, the obstacles and potential solutions such as BIM.
Overall the book achieves what it sets out to, in a short, concise and easy to read format that should appeal to everyone from a part 3 student to a seasoned Architect . Those looking for a weighty research tome will be disappointed, but those who want to pick up hints and tips that they can easily apply to improve their design management skills won’t be. 8/10
Geoff Wilkinson, Managing Director of Wilkinson Construction Consultants and columnist for Architects Journal
Post a Review
You need to be logged in to post a review
Customers Who Bought This Also Bought
Extract is available for this book
Biomimicry in Architecture
Read the Foreword and Introduction to 'Biomimicry in Architecture' by Michael Pawlyn (more)
£25.00
Add to basket
Leading the Team: An Architects Guide to Design Management & Biomimicry in Architecture
Buy these items together.
£44.99
Add to basket
