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The Structure of the Ordinary - Form and Control in the Built Environment (Paperback, Revised)
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The Structure of the Ordinary - Form and Control in the Built Environment (Paperback, Revised)
Series: The Structure of the Ordinary
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The influential Dutch architect's long-awaited manifesto on the
everyday environment as the first and best ground for establishing
the significance and coherence of architecture. 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 author's 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.
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