Ytzen, Andrea. Interview. March 10, 2014. College of Design.
Andrea is a 5th year architecture student doing an independent study who also works at an architecture firm. She provided a lot of insight into what kind of daily writing and reading she does as an architect. She also spoke about how much writing architects do for research projects, which is actually not much.
Gallagher, Kevin. Interview. March 10, 2014. College of Design.
Kevin is a 5th year student in architecture. He spoke to me about a conference he is co-hosting next week and the kind of communication he is using to bring in speakers and to promote the conference to students and universities.
Simon Guy & Graham Farmer, (2013) Reinterpreting Sustainable Architecture: The Place of Technology. Taylor & Francis Online.
This article does not specifically talk about how architects communicate with writing, but it gives an example of a purpose writing is used for. In this case, writing is used to persuade other architects to change their view on a subject.
Andrea Ytzen, Eric Stalheim, Marwan Gandour (2013) Infrastructural Resources. Iowa State University.
This is a paper written by 5th year students in architecture that shows the importance of visual representations of ideas in the field of design.
John Ackman & Scott Oates, (1996) Image, Text, and Power in Archtectural Design and Workplace Writing. Nonacademic Writing: Social Theory and Technology, pages 81-117.
This chapter of a book talks about how visual and textual communication play a role in real world communications in the workplace, specific to architecture and design.
Subasinghe, Chamila. Interveiw. College of Design.
Cham is an architect and instructor at Iowa State who has lived all over the world. He has practiced architecture for many years.
