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Back to the Future: The Everyday Built Environment in a Phase of Transition
Author(s) -
Habraken John
Publication year - 2017
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.2211
Subject(s) - architecture , odds , modernism (music) , sociology , transition (genetics) , everyday life , dimension (graph theory) , distribution (mathematics) , control (management) , architectural engineering , aesthetics , environmental ethics , law , visual arts , political science , management , engineering , computer science , art , economics , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , gene , mathematical analysis , logistic regression , mathematics , machine learning , pure mathematics
Time is a crucial dimension in architecture, yet architectural education ignores it. While historical environments were able to evolve over centuries, the purist spirit that has prevailed since the advent of Modernism is at odds with the social dynamics of normal human life. John Habraken – a renowned architectural educator and writer both in the Netherlands and the US – examines the issues and argues for a more effective distribution of design control, showcasing recent projects in the Netherlands and Denmark that have achieved this.