{"product_id":"why-architects-matter-flora-samuel-9781138783928","title":"Why Architects Matter: Evidencing and Communicating the Value of Architects","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhy Architects Matter\u003c\/em\u003e examines the key role of research- led, ethical architects in promoting wellbeing, sustainability and innovation. It argues that the profession needs to be clear about what it knows and the value of what it knows if it is to work successfully with others. Without this clarity, the marginalization of architects from the production of the built environment will continue, preventing clients, businesses and society from getting the buildings that they need. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book offers a strategy for the development of a twenty-first-century knowledge-led built environment, including tools to help evidence, develop and communicate that value to those outside the field. Knowing how to demonstrate the impact and value of their work will strengthen practitioners' ability to pitch for work and access new funding streams. This is particularly important at a time of global economic downturn, with ever greater competition for contracts and funds driving down fees and making it imperative to prove value at every level.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy Architects Matter straddles the spheres of 'Practice Management and Law', 'History and Theory', 'Design', 'Housing', 'Sustainability', 'Health', 'Marketing' and 'Advice for Clients', bringing them into an accessible whole. The book will therefore be of interest to professional architects, architecture students and anyone with an interest in our built environment and the role of professionals within it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Flora Samuel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1138783927\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781138783928\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/06\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Flora Samuel","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48113287069951,"sku":"9781138783928","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1d53c718-ec60-450b-ab54-6bfbfd3ce3a3.jpg?v=1769614101","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/why-architects-matter-flora-samuel-9781138783928","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}