From the earliest periods of architecture and building, architects actions have been conditioned by rules, regulations, standards, and governance practices. These range from socio-cultural and religious codes seeking to influence the formal structure of settlement patterns, to prescriptive building regulations specifying detailed elements of design in relation to the safety of building structures. In Architectural Design and Regulation the authors argue that the rule and regulatory basis of architecture is part of a broader field of socio-institutional and political interventions in the design and development process that serve to delimit, and define, the scope of the activities of architects. The book explores how the practices of architects are embedded in complex systems of rules and regulations. The authors develop the understanding that the rules and regulations of building form and performance ought not to be counterpoised as external to creative processes and practices, but as integral to the creation of well-designed places. The contribution of Architectural Design and Regulation is to show that far from the rule and regulatory basis of architecture undermining the capacities of architects to design, they are the basis for new and challenging activities that open up possibilities for reinventing the actions of architects.

From the earliest periods of architecture and building, architects' actions have been conditioned by rules, regulations, standards, and governance practices. These range from socio-cultural and religious codes seeking to influence the formal structure of settlement patterns, to prescriptive building regulations specifying detailed elements of design in relation to the safety of building structures. In Architectural Design and Regulation the authors argue that the rule and regulatory basis of architecture is part of a broader field of socio-institutional and political interventions in the design and development process that serve to delimit, and define, the scope of the activities of architects.The book explores how the practices of architects are embedded in complex systems of rules and regulations. The authors develop the understanding that the rules and regulations of building form and performance ought not to be counterpoised as external to creative processes and practices, but as integral to the creation of well-designed places. The contribution of Architectural Design and Regulation is to show that far from the rule and regulatory basis of architecture undermining the capacities of architects to design, they are the basis for new and challenging activities that open up possibilities for reinventing the actions of architects.

Illustrations.Tables.The Authors.Foreword.Preface.Illustration Credits.PART I THE CONTEXT OF REGULATION.1 Regulation, Rule, and Architecture: Introductory Comments.1.1 Introduction.1.2 The autonomy of architecture and the design process.1.3 The study of regulation and the practices of architects.1.4 Conclusions.2 The Rule and Regulation of Building Form and Performance.2.1 Introduction.2.2 Early settlement and the codification of designpractice.2.3 Spatial codes and the regularisation of design anddevelopment.2.4 Hygienic spaces and the efficiency of design.2.5 From the regulatory society to the regulatory state.2.6 Conclusions.3 Urban Design and the Rise of the (De)Regulatory Society.3.1 Introduction.3.2 Self-activation and the (re-)regulation of designactivities.3.3 Regulating design: an evaluation of leading assumptions.3.4 Conclusions.PART II THE PRACTICES OF REGULATION.4 Learning about Regulation.4.1 Introduction.4.2 Discipline, education, and the creation of thearchitect-subject.4.3 Pedagogy and the acculturation of architects: evidence fromthe field.4.4 Conclusions: towards relational pedagogies.Case Study A: Rethinking Education: Evidence from a FocusGroup.5 Working with Regulation.5.1 Introduction.5.2 Systems of control and the management of the designprocess.5.3 The interrelationships between regulations and the practicesof architects.5.4 Conclusions.Case Study B: Straw-Bale Building in the USA: Negotiating theCodes.6 Risk and the Regulation of the Design Process.6.1 Introduction.6.2 Building form, performance and the regulation of risk.6.3 Risk, regulation, and architecture: some evidence from theUK.6.4 Conclusions.Case Study C: Regulating the Design Process: a RiskyBusiness?PART III THE SCOPE OF REGULATION.7 The Role of Project Actors in Influencing Design.7.1 Introduction.7.2 Redefining roles in the UK design and constructionindustry.7.3 Contemporary project teams and the rise of the newprofessional.7.4 Responding to change: architects' experiences of achanging profession.7.5 Conclusions.Case Study D: Traces of Regulation: the School of SportExercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University.8 The Coding of Design and Architecture.8.1 Introduction.8.2 Modernity, urbanism and the revival of urban character.8.3 The influence of design coding on the practices ofarchitects.8.4 Conclusions.Case Study E: The Use of Design Codes in Two English Towns.9 Regulation and the Practices of Architects: ConcludingThoughts.Endnotes.Appendix: Research Design and Methods.References.Index.