About the Book

 

Design Juries on Trial unlocks the door to the mysterious design jury system--exposing its hidden agendas and helping you overcome intimidation, confrontation, and frustration. It explains how to improve the success rate of submissions to juries--whether in the academic setting, for competititions and awards programs, or for professional accounts--and how to reconstruct the jury system in both design education and professional practice.  Architects, landscape architects, planners, and interior, industrial, and graphic designers--as well as others who shape design decisions--are sure to  benefit from this resource.

Guidelines and checklists are based on extensive research with systematic observations and videotape recordings of juries, diaries of design students, and interviews and surveys of students, educators and practitioners conducted during a seven year period.  Interviews feature leading architectural, landscape, and interior designers including Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, Steven Izenour, E. Fay Jones, Richard Meier, the late Charles Moore, Cesar Pelli, Robert A. M. Stern,Cynthia Weese, and others.  More than 900 individuals participated in the research for this book.

 
Preparing for a jury is much like preparing for a musical recital. The preparation and practice may be an even greater learning experience than the final presentation.

 

Shattering myths, challenging traditional assumptions, and calling for sweeping changes in design education and practice,

Design Juries on Trial :
 

    Empowers students to take better control of their performance at juries and in studios through an array of self management skills, including:
  • time management
  • public speaking
  • negotiating
  • preparing effective graphic presentations
  • handling studio stress
    Reveals the hidden processes that jurors use to evaluate design work.
    Directs you to key resources from applied environment behavior research and elsewhere.

    Provides the first historical and comparative overview of design juries.

    Advocates an array of refreshing reforms of the jury system.

    Brings you unique insights into the jury process, with the most exhaustive analysis of the jury system undertaken to date.

 

DESIGN JURIES ON TRIAL:
THE RENAISSANCE OF THE DESIGN STUDIO

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