Sonja Dragojlovic-Oliveira's Outputs (6)

Preventing or inventing? Understanding the effects of non-prescriptive design briefs (2017)
Journal Article

© 2016, The Author(s). This paper discusses observations of an architecture and environmental engineering undergraduate design studio project assigned to 4th year students at a UK university. In the UK, most architecture courses are characterised by... Read More about Preventing or inventing? Understanding the effects of non-prescriptive design briefs.

The client, organization and the project - Architects’ valuation of energy modelling adoption across four UK firms (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Whilst some architects engage in energy analysis discussions early in design, in most cases building services engineers carry out modelling and simulation tasks often at late stages of design. Recently, however, a number of large architecture firms h... Read More about The client, organization and the project - Architects’ valuation of energy modelling adoption across four UK firms.

Institutional work for new modes of evaluation: Emerging culture of assessment in evaluating sustainability in architecture (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper deals with the question of how understandings on criteria for evaluating sustainability develop in award winning architecture in 1990-2012 in the UK. Based on the concept of institutional work the paper examines the activities and actors t... Read More about Institutional work for new modes of evaluation: Emerging culture of assessment in evaluating sustainability in architecture.

Disentangling the symbolic and material in institutional logics: The rise of new modes of evaluation in sustainable architecture (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The rise of dominant criteria in sustainable architectural design: Institutional work forms as indicators for institutionalization (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The search for consensus in sustainable architectural design - giving rise to new forms of institutional work (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution