BEAU Innovation agenda
Innovation agenda BEAU Built Environment Architecture Urbanism, developed for the top sector creative industry.
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Research Assessment 2010
'TU Delft enjoys a 'Level One' acceptance as one of the leading institutions for architectural education and research'.
Research in Context
... to bring the presentation of societal research performance on a par with the more established performance indicators.
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Onderzoek
- Portfolio: Architecture and the Built Environment: Research in Context 2003-2009
Architecture and the Built Environment
TU Delft’s Faculty of Architecture and OTB Research Institute, together with the independent Berlage Institute, have made great strides in their investigations into how design, engineering, planning and management can contribute to improving performance, quality of life and sustainability in the built environment of the Netherlands, the European Union and beyond. As such we perceive the world around us as our laboratory.
The faculty’s portfolio on Architecture and the Built Environment is unique in combining evaluation research, historical research, conceptual research and practical research. It includes architectural design and history, which generally tend towards the research methods of the humanities (discursive and interpretive); urban/spatial planning and management, which tend more towards the methods of the social sciences; and building technology, which is based primarily on the methods of the technical sciences.
By arranging the portfolio around this diverse range of methods as well as the crucial component of design, a new generation of researchers is being ‘schooled’ whose approach includes the practical capabilities of design-oriented research as well as the reflective capabilities of scientific reasoning.
