Post Occupancy Evaluation in Architectural Education and Practice

摘要

Overall, assessing a building's social performance in architectural education and practice receives limited attention. Yet our examples indicate that each POE contributes to improving shared knowledge about how to design buildings that meet design intentions and respond to users' both manifest and latent needs. POE should be an integral part of the design process and training, so that architectural professionals can avoid repeating mistakes. Making POE a routine part of practice will help reduce the amount of failing building stock. Having to remodel soon after being built (as in the case of the SF Public Library) wastes valuable resources and frustrates dissatisfied occupants. Incorporating POE methods into architectural design curricula would acculturate future design professionals to make use of published POEs and to be comfortable conducting their own user-focused POEs.