Architecture and the Public Good - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Architecture and the Public Good write by Tom Spector. This book was released on 2021-06. Architecture and the Public Good available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why has explaining the value of the architecture profession proven so difficult? The architecture profession can be well-defended by demonstrating the public good which results from its protected practice. Although the book believes in this approach, this approach immediately raises the thorny questions of just who is the public, and what is its good? To answer these questions, to explain why the profession has done a poor job explaining itself, and to propose a fresh perspective are the challenges set out in this book. The book dissects the internal weaknesses and external forces which have prevented architects from asserting their value to the public, explains how the concept of the public is itself widely misunderstood, investigates the shifting boundaries of the public and private realms, and proposes a series of measures by which we can assess and improve an architectural work’s publicness. Through a renewed focus on the public good that everyday architects are capable of as a profession, the book charts an ultimately optimistic program for the architecture profession’s renewal.
Design for Good
Design for Good - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Design for Good write by John Cary. This book was released on 2017-10-03. Design for Good available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book reveals a new understanding of the ways that design shapes our lives and gives professionals and interested citizens the tools to seek out and demand designs that dignify.
The Public Face of Architecture
The Public Face of Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Public Face of Architecture write by Nathan Glazer. This book was released on 1987. The Public Face of Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Design and the Public Good
Design and the Public Good - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Design and the Public Good write by Serge Chermayeff. This book was released on 1982. Design and the Public Good available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Architecture of Good Behavior
The Architecture of Good Behavior - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Architecture of Good Behavior write by Joy Knoblauch. This book was released on 2020-04-07. The Architecture of Good Behavior available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Inspired by the rise of environmental psychology and increasing support for behavioral research after the Second World War, new initiatives at the federal, state, and local levels looked to influence the human psyche through form, or elicit desired behaviors with environmental incentives, implementing what Joy Knoblauch calls “psychological functionalism.” Recruited by federal construction and research programs for institutional reform and expansion—which included hospitals, mental health centers, prisons, and public housing—architects theorized new ways to control behavior and make it more functional by exercising soft power, or power through persuasion, with their designs. In the 1960s –1970s era of anti-institutional sentiment, they hoped to offer an enlightened, palatable, more humane solution to larger social problems related to health, mental health, justice, and security of the population by applying psychological expertise to institutional design. In turn, Knoblauch argues, architects gained new roles as researchers, organizers, and writers while theories of confinement, territory, and surveillance proliferated. The Architecture of Good Behavior explores psychological functionalism as a political tool and the architectural projects funded by a postwar nation in its efforts to govern, exert control over, and ultimately pacify its patients, prisoners, and residents.
