GLOBAL DESIGN PRACTICE WEEK 5: PRACTICE AS NON-PROFIT ENTERPRISE

SCHEDULE

Monday 2/13 Lecture 5 Wednesday 2/15 Workshop — financial flow diagrams

LECTURE 5: For-Profit and Non-Profit Design in the 21st Century

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CASE STUDIES

Skidmore Owings and Merrill (LLP)

Thomas Phifer and Partners (LLP)

Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (Inc.)

Snøhetta (Inc.)

James Corner Field Operations (LLC)

Diller Scofidio + Renfro (LLC; Domestic Professional Corporation)

MASS Design Group (Blended for-profit and non-profit)

Voluntary Architects Network (non-profit arm of Shigeru Ban Architects)

Kéré Architecture (for-profit) and Kéré Foundation (non-profit)

ASSIGNMENT

Select one project by a for-profit or non-profit firm that we discussed the in past two weeks, and diagram its financial flow (one 11x17 sheet, landscape orientation, PDF format). Your diagram should elucidate who all the “actors” are in the financial exchange process (client, developer, design firm + internal labor, consultants, general contractor, subcontractors, and so on), what direction capital flows between them, and where it eventually ends up.

We will have a workshop day to develop these diagrams on 2/15. They are due Monday, 2/20, and there are no readings this week.