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The first Project Offices operated in a handful of UK schools from the 1960s to the 1980s, typically linked to building science units, developing ideas from the RIBA’s 1958 Oxford Conference on Architectural Education. A second generation of Offices emerged in the 1990s and 2000s, this time in response university research assessment exercises. A third, contemporary generation of Offices is now producing innovative projects engaging clients, communities, academic research, students, sites, and novel design processes.
This event surveys the contemporary field, comparing opportunities, challenges, business models, and recent work. What do Project Offices do? What are their distinctive contributions to universities and to architectural practice? How are Project Offices currently imagined? And how might they be re-imagined? It is hoped that the Forum will lead to an edited book surveying and celebrating the work of Project Offices in UK schools.