Supporting Research in Practice

摘要

All this goes to show why the publication of the winners of the RIBA Research Awards in this Journal and the collation of research by other contenders for use by the wider community on the RIBA website architecture.com is a significant moment for the development of architectural research in the UK and worldwide: it is worth noting the extraordinary global reach this year. This special edition of The Journal of Architecture adds to the knowledge developed in a succession of recent books and reports such as The Changing Shape of Practice,31 Demystifying Architectural Research and the RIBA Home Improvements: Report on Research in Housing Practice32 which have used case studies to celebrate and articulate practice research in the normative language of research in this way making it more intelligible, rigorous and useful while contributing to the global impetus of architectural knowledge.