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Identity Through the Grounding of Experience in Place
Author(s) -
Joy Rick
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1491
Subject(s) - sense of place , identity (music) , natural (archaeology) , aesthetics , atmosphere (unit) , sociology , natural landscape , architecture , place identity , work (physics) , architectural engineering , environmental ethics , visual arts , engineering , civil engineering , history , geography , art , archaeology , social science , urban planning , philosophy , meteorology , mechanical engineering
Arizona‐based architect Rick Joy is renowned for creating beautiful modern houses that are responsive to the natural landscape. Here he describes how experience and identity in a completed work are grounded in a mutual relationship between inhabitant and habitat: spaces condition behaviours as much as they are then, in turn, conditioned by their inhabitants. Accommodating these qualities in a design is wholly reliant on the architects' ability to be perceptive – to observe habits, nuances, atmosphere and a sense of place.