Design Added Value

Part I: Introduction.- Capital Projects and Building Assessment.- A Celebrated Case of D-AV Analysis: Fallingwater.- Introduction to Value Based Design.- D-AV Analysis Methods.- Cost-Benefit with Risk Analysis.- Elicitation Methods: Structured Interview, Ethnographic Observation, Cognitive Walkthrough, Brainstorming, Prototypes.- Pre-Facto and Post-Facto Analysis.- Scaling with Ordinal Values, Sensitivity Analysis, Risk Analysis, Bayesian Probability and Benchmarking.- Optimization with Graphics, Calculus, Simplex Methods.- Expertise, Innovation, and Creativity in Design.- D-AV Analysis of Two Seminal Case Studies.- Swiss Re Tower: Analysis of a Seminal Case.- The Commerzbank Tower: Analysis of Another Seminal Case.- Selected Case Studies.- John Hancock Tower, Boston.- Kansas City Hyatt Regency.- Pruitt-Igoe, St. Louis, MO.- Crystal Palace, London.- Sydney Opera House.- Citicorp Tower, NY.- Appendix: Design-Added Value Methods forAnalyzing Case Studies.

Ömer Akin, PhD, AIA was Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Courtesy Faculty in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA.



Dr. Akin was also CEO of Architectural Design Associates (ADA), Inc. ADA publishes professional texts as well as fiction, including the following titles: Representation and Architecture (1982), Psychology of Architectural Design (1986, 1989), Generative CAD Systems (2005), A Cartesian Approach to Design Rationality (2006), Embedded Commissioning (2011) and Ethical Decision Making in Architecture (2018). His publishers include Information Dynamics Inc., Pion, Inc., Carnegie Mellon University Press, METU Press, Artech House, Inc., Springer, and CreateSpace, Inc.



Dr. Akin served as Professor of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, since 1978. He was a well-published researcher with several hundred reviewed publications, and texts that include the titles cited above among others. His research interests included design cognition, computer aided design, case-based design instruction, ethical decision making, value-based design, building commissioning, and automated design requirement management. He has also served as the Head of the School of Architecture and the director of the graduate programs.