Synergy in action: collaborative design process

Abstract

This article is the result of the master's research in the Institute of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo. The investigation led us through cybernetic subtheories that corroborate with collaborative architectural design process. For the understanding of the conceptual bases, we studied the Viable System Model, as well as Team Syntegrity, by the cyberneticist Stafford Beer. The strategies for management against cybernetic resources showed us another way of observing the processes culminating in possible indicators for collaboration in Architecture.