Architecture And The Public Good

Author : Tom Spector
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1785277359
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture and the Public Good written by Tom Spector and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Serge Chermayeff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Design and the Public Good written by Serge Chermayeff and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Cary
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610917936
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Design for Good written by John Cary and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Joy Knoblauch
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822987031
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Good Behavior written by Joy Knoblauch and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : John Cary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935202189
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of Pro Bono written by John Cary and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents 40 pro bono design projects produced by many of the leading architects working today. The clients include grassroots community organizations like the Homeless Prenatal Program of San Francisco, as well as national and international nonprofits, among them Goodwill, Habitat for Humanity and Planned Parenthood.

Author : Nathan Glazer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0029118115
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Public Face of Architecture written by Nathan Glazer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1987 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lisa M. Abendroth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317609565
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Interest Design Practice Guidebook written by Lisa M. Abendroth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public Interest Design Practice Guidebook: Seed Methodology, Case Studies, and Critical Issues is the first book to demonstrate that public interest design has emerged as a distinct profession. It provides clear professional standards of practice following SEED (Social Economic Environmental Design) methodology, the first step-by-step process supporting public interest designers. The book features an Issues Index composed of ninety critical social, economic, and environmental issues, illustrated with thirty case study projects representing eighteen countries and four continents, all cross-referenced, to show you how every human issue is a design issue. Contributions from Thomas Fisher, Heather Fleming and David Kaisel, Michael Cohen, Michael P. Murphy Jr. and Alan Ricks, and over twenty others cover topics such as professional responsibility, public interest design business development, design evaluation, and capacity building through scaling, along with many more. Themes including public participation, issue-based design, and assessment are referenced throughout the book and provide benchmarks toward an informed practice. This comprehensive manual also contains a glossary, an appendix of engagement methods, a case study locator atlas, and a reading list. Whether you are working in the field of architecture, urban planning, industrial design, landscape architecture, or communication design, this book empowers you to create community-centered environments, products, and systems.

Author : Christie Pearson
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262044218
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Bathing written by Christie Pearson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of communal bathing—swimming pools, saunas, beaches, ritual baths, sweat lodges, and more—viewed through the lens of architecture and landscape. We enter the public pool, the sauna, or the beach with a heightened awareness of our bodies and the bodies of others. The phenomenology of bathing opens all of our senses toward the physical world entwined with the social, while the history of bathing is one of shared space, in both natural and built environments. In The Architecture of Bathing, Christie Pearson offers a unique examination of communal bathing and its history from the perspective of architecture and landscape. Engagingly written and richly illustrated, with more than 260 illustrations, many in color, The Architecture of Bathing offers a celebration of spaces in which public and private, sacred and profane, ritual and habitual, pure and impure, nature and culture commingle. Pearson takes a wide-ranging view of her subject, drawing on architecture, art, and literary works. Each chapter is structured around an architectural typology and explores an accompanying theme—for example, tub, sensuality; river, flow; waterfall, rejuvenation; and banya, immersion. Offering examples, introducing relevant theory, and recounting personal experiences, Pearson effortlessly combines a practitioner's zest with astonishing erudition. As she examines these forms, we see that they are inextricable from landscapes, bodily practices, and cultural production. Looking more closely, we experience architecture itself as an immersive material and social space, embedded inthe interdependent environmental and cultural fabric of our world.

Author : Pablo Guillen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811557411
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City Form, Economics and Culture written by Pablo Guillen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-30 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about how cities occupy space. We are not interested in architectural masterpieces, but the tools for reinventing city life. We try to provide a framework for the architecture and design of public space without aesthetic considerations. We identify several defining factors. First of all, history as the city today very much depends on how it was yesterday. The geographical location and the technology available at a point of time both play a constraining role in what can be done as well. Culture, in the form of social norms, laws and regulations, also restricts what is possible to do. On the other hand, culture is also important in guiding the ideas and aspirations that together inform what society wants the city to be. The city needs government intervention, or regulation, to ameliorate the problem posed by a tangle of externalities and public goods. We focus on two comparative case studies: the evolution of urban form in the US and how it stands in a sharp contrast with the evolution of urban form in Japan. We emphasise the difference in regulations between both jurisdictions. We study how differences in technological choices driven by culture (i.e. racial segregation), geography (i.e. the availability of land) and history (i.e. the mobility restrictions of the Tokugawa period) result in vast differences in mobility regarding the share of public transport, walking and cycling versus motorised private transport. American cities are constrained by rules that are much further from the neoliberal economic idea of free and competitive markets than the Japanese ones. Japanese planning promotes competition and through a granular, walkable city dotted with small shops, fosters variety in the availability of goods and services. We hypothesise how changing regulations could change the urban form to generate a greater variety of goods and to foster the access to those goods through a more equitable distribution of wealth. Critically, we point out that a desirably denser city must rely on public transport, and we also study how a less-dense city can be made to work with public transport. We conclude by claiming that changes in regulations are very unlikely to happen in the US, as it would require deep cultural changes to move from local to a more universal and less excluding public good provision, but they are both possible and desirable in other jurisdictions.

Author : Serge Chermayeff
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262160889
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Design and the Public Good written by Serge Chermayeff and published by Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays examine architecture as a profession, city planning, the teaching of architectural design, and the social and environmental aspects of architecture