Building Information Modeling by Karen Kensek Douglas Noble

Author:Karen Kensek, Douglas Noble
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-28T16:00:00+00:00

significant positive impact on how buildings are designed and constructed and would reunite the currently fragmented building industry.

14.2 THE WICKED PROBLEM OF MAKING ARCHITECTURE

Horst Rittel’s definition of a “wicked problem” has often been used to describe the process of designing a building (Rittel and Webber 1993). The wickedness of designing and constructing a complicated building in contemporary society grows exponentially as more knowledge of building physics and behavior is explicated. The result has been a dramatic departure from Christopher Alexander’s “craft” model of design to the contemporary design and building environment where it is impossible for one individual to possess all the knowledge and skill required to design and construct a building (Alexander 1979). The modern-day consequence is a very complex and fragmented industry, with an ever-increasing chasm between those who design and those who build.

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