Getting There by Design, An architect's guide to project and design management

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Adopts an architect's view to design and project management. It sets out the fundamental principles and shows how they are applied, dealing with these two topics as one indivisible subject.

Getting There by Design, An architect's guide to project and design management
by Kenneth Allinson

Paperback - 224 pages (January 12, 1998)
Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN: 0750626232

Book Description
Getting There by Design, An architect's guide to project and design management demonstrates how to:
* Make project efforts goal-orientated
* Set up a planning and monitoring basis to architectural projects
* Put the architect's fee calculus on a rational basis
* Diagnose your firm's practice culture
* Develop successful teams.

From the Publisher
There is design management in engineering, product design, graphics, packaging, management theory, and even in politics. Construction consultants talk about managing design. When are architects going to become committed to managing design? Getting There by Design adopts an architect's view to design and project management. It sets out the fundamental principles and shows how they are applied, dealing with these two topics as one indivisible subject.