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Structure Of The Ordinary
According to N. J. Habraken intimate and unceasing interaction between people and the forms they inhabit uniquely defines built environment. The Structure of the Ordinary the culmination of decades of environmental observation and design research is a recognition and analysis of everyday environment as the wellspring of urban design and formal architecture. The authors central argument is that built environment is universally organized by the Orders of Form Place and Understanding. These three fundamental interwoven principles correspond roughly to physical biological and social domains.Historically ordinary" environment was the background against which architects built the "extraordinary." Drawing upon extensive examples from archaeological and contemporary sites worldwide
the author illustrates profound recent shifts in the structure of everyday environment. One effect of these transformations Habraken argues has been the loss of implicit common understanding that previously enabled architects to formally enhance and innovate while still maintaining environmental coherence. Consequently architects must now undertake a study of the ordinary as the fertile common ground in which form- and place-making are rooted. In focusing on built environment as an autonomous entity distinct from the societies and natural environments that jointly create it this book lays the foundation for a new dialogue on methodology and pedagogy in support of a more informed approach to professional intervention."
the author illustrates profound recent shifts in the structure of everyday environment. One effect of these transformations Habraken argues has been the loss of implicit common understanding that previously enabled architects to formally enhance and innovate while still maintaining environmental coherence. Consequently architects must now undertake a study of the ordinary as the fertile common ground in which form- and place-making are rooted. In focusing on built environment as an autonomous entity distinct from the societies and natural environments that jointly create it this book lays the foundation for a new dialogue on methodology and pedagogy in support of a more informed approach to professional intervention."
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