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Niels Barrett PhD.pdf - OpenAIR @ RGU - Robert Gordon University

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The rise of a Profession within a ProfessionAcknowledgementsThe Development of the Architectural Technology Discipline within the Profession of ArchitectureAcknowledgementsFirst and foremost I have to thank my employing school Copenhagen School ofDesign and Technology for supporting this study economically and morally. Withoutthis support it would have been impossible for me to undertake it.Then I have to thank my principal supervisor Professor Richard Laing for very goodguidance and critical reading and comments to my texts, for showing a very goodexample in balanced academic judgment and for personal support to my conferenceinitiative in Copenhagen 2008.I will thank architect and course leader Graham Paterson for all the support he hasgiven to help me, not least for bringing me in contact with key persons within andoutside the <strong>RGU</strong>, for the engagement in the conference held in Copenhagen onarchitectural technology (2008) and for assistance with many other practical andtheoretical matters.I also want to thank the architects Jakob Knudsen, Finn Selmer, Kaj Wohlfeldt, LarsHartmann Petersen, Lene Nepper Larsen, Iain Murphy, Virginia Rammou, FestusMoffat and Philip Tidd for their kind participation in the focus groups that helped meinterpreting the rough data from my questionnaires into reasonable conclusions. Alsoparticipating in the groups were the architectural technologists Norman Wienand,Adam Thwaites, Anni Bryld, Gert Johansen and Jacob Ravn Thomsen together withthe other representatives from organisations Ib Sander-Hansen, Keith Snook andTara Pickles. All have contributed with energy and engagement to the qualitativedata collection and I am very grateful for all their efforts; furthermore MA BirgitteHestbech and my two sons Benjamin <strong>Barrett</strong> BA and Jonathan <strong>Barrett</strong> BSc have beensupportive with corrections of language, layout and structure. Staff members atCopenhagen School of Design and Technology – the Building and ProductionDepartment at KEA have been so kind to reply to a questionnaire, thus supplying mewith interesting and useful data, and I want to thank all who did so.Finally I will thank my wife Susie <strong>Barrett</strong> for her always positive support and foraccepting my being abroad and being so occupied with matters outside the familyand her interests which this project so often demanded from me.Thank you<strong>Niels</strong> <strong>Barrett</strong>December 20105

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