This project has been started to ask and collect the relevant questions, find potential answers being tested by various firms around the country, compare and analyze those answers, synthesize them into one or more suggested Practice Guides, and publish the most significant among them. Ultimately, we hope to help more architects maximize the value they bring to their clients, to the builders and users of their projects, and to society in general. Improved architectural practice benefits everyone, not just the practitioner. Please join us in working toward more effective and responsive architectural practice. What We Do APRP's mission is to identify obstacles to responsive architectural practice and to develop guidelines for overcoming them.
Responsive design is synonymous with effective design.
Responsive architectural design adds quantifiable value to building projects. Building owners, users, and society at large are generally more satisfied when their architects recognize and respond to the significant issues in their projects. In satisfying building owners, users, and society at large through the achievement of responsive design, architects are better aligned to achieve their own professional and business goals. In summary, and defined most universally, architectural design can be effective only when a project team recognizes and responds to the substantive issues inherent in their project's circumstances . How a project team recognizes and responds to its project's substantive issues is by no means clear.