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Architecture for People
Mikellides, Byron (ed.)
Publisher: Holt Rinehart Winston, United KingdomYear Published: 1980 Pages: 192pp ISBN: 0-03-057489-7 Resource Type: Book Cx Number: CX8651 A book of possible solutions for the problems of modern architecture. Abstract: Architecture for People is a book of possible solutions for the problems of modern architecture. Over the years, many have attacked modern architecture for neglecting human needs and preventing social activity. This book does not further define the issue, but provides the visions of many experts. Their visions are for more community-based urban planning and structures that appeal more to groups of all ages. The book is a collection of essays, accompanied by pictures, drawings and blueprints, by respected and highly acclaimed architects. The contributors aim to change the traditional conventions of architecture. Some focus on the construction of residences, while others describe how whole neighbourhoods can be brought closer by changing the designs of the buildings. Many thinkers advocate living in collectives to create a community with shared resources and means of recreation. The ideas can be considered separately or in combination, for none of the authors claim to have created the ideal situation. The essays focus on the aesthetics, emotions and necessities of the structures. Conventions of modern architecture prevent people from seeing how their needs can be met in their place of dwelling. It is the job of these architects to suggest new ways of living that incorporate these needs. Different methods are suggested, but the consensus is the same. We must break free of a fixation on traditional architecture to bring the humanity back into the living space. [Abstract by Mia Manns] Table of Contents: Preface Architectural psychology and the unavoidable art - Byron Mikellides Understanding people and developing a brief - Aldington and Craig Social needs and landscape architecture - Darbourne and Darke Shaping the environment - Herman Hertzberger Educating the client - Bruce Allsopp Whose failure is modern architecture? - Oscar Newman Natural aesthetics - Nicholas K. Humphrey Urban aesthetics - Peter F. Smith Architecture and Emotions - Rikard Kuller Humanity in the built environment - Carl-Axel Acking Human energy - Charles Moore A conflict between Art and Life? - Robert Maguire Housing and human needs: the work of Ralph Erskine (with original sketches by Ralph Erskine) The disappearing factory: the Volvo experiment at Kalmar - Kenneth Frampton Architecture and bureaucracy - Lucien Kroll The housing crisis in Western Europe: Britain assessment and options - Walter Segal Models of man in Castlebridge and Milton Keynes - Peter Stringer The biosphere and man: some reflections on technology and tact - Gosta Ehrensvard Appendix on human needs - Byron Mikellides Subject Headings |