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Exploring Design Process Evolution in Architecture and Interior Design Firms

Benzenberg, Elizabeth Marie Acox

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2011, Master of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Industrial, Interior Visual Communication Design.

Architects and interior designers must work together and with others on the design team in a series of processes in order for the building projects they undertake to be successful. The two major processes that they go through are the creative decision-making process as well as the project timeline and process. These two processes must be able to work within one another in order to produce a successful outcome.

Along with changes in the creative decision-making and the project processes, two shifts are taking place in how architects and interior designers bureaucratically manage a project. The first is a shift in the type of technology used to share concepts and document design. The second is a shift in project management that begins to include the client (and other stakeholders) earlier in the process, thus increasing the size of the design team. These two shifts have a great affect on one another and are continuously co-evolving.

This thesis first defines processes historically used in the architecture and interior design professions through secondary research and a literature review. These discipline specific processes are compared and contrasted with processes gathered from general design and related disciplines such as engineering design, product design, and software design. Second, this thesis documents primary research (in the form of interviews), which seeks to identify processes that currently utilize new technologies and expanded project team within the architecture and interior design profession. In summary, the results are analyzed, compared to secondary research, and a new process is suggested as the next step in the evolution of the design process.

Jeffrey Haase (Advisor)
Heike Goeller (Committee Member)
Blaine Lilly (Committee Member)
119 p.

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  • Benzenberg, E. M. A. (2011). Exploring Design Process Evolution in Architecture and Interior Design Firms [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1313341550

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Benzenberg, Elizabeth. Exploring Design Process Evolution in Architecture and Interior Design Firms. 2011. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1313341550.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Benzenberg, Elizabeth. "Exploring Design Process Evolution in Architecture and Interior Design Firms." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1313341550

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)