Volume 6 Issue 2 - Leadership in Architectural Research

The full title of the conference 'Leadership in Architectural Research: between academia and the profession' visits the changing environment and advances in the field. Recent decades have witnessed a notable expansion of architectural research activities, with respect to both subject and methodology. This expansion can be mostly credited to an increase in government and private funding of primarily academic research initiatives. More recently, however, a noticeable increase in research activities within the architectural profession makes it possible to argue that it is the profession itself that is now taking leadership in the development of contemporary research agendas. This growing significance of architectural research, in both academia and the profession, is ultimately a response to the diverse challenges facing the profession.