The Communication Feedback Creates a Two-Winner ~ Cognitive Model for Explaining Client-Architect Interaction

Abstract:

The client is literally the start point of every architectural design. In architectural projects, complex as they are, it is unlikely that the clients would be able see all their needs from the very start. Demands and wantings float out of the surface as the design proceeds. Client-Architect meetings go on from the very start to the very end of each project. It is very likely that “client needs” also known as “design problems” to the architects may shift and change with time. Previously, research on design cognition focuses on the designer end and how they face “problem-solving”. Very often they forget these “problems” are alive. As the design progresses and grows so do client needs and demands. The goal of this research is to look into client-architect interaction in hope to conclude a cognitive model that can help us understand the dynamics.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 430-432)
• Pages: 1248-1252
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.430-432.1248
• Online since: January 2012
• Authors: Mei Luan Huang, Yaw Yih Wang
• Keywords: Cognitive Model, Participant Observation, Protocol Analysis

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