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The Structure of the Ordinary. Form and Control in the Built Environment | N.J. Habraken | 9780262581950

The Structure of the Ordinary

Form and Control in the Built Environment

Auteur:N.J. Habraken

Uitgever:MIT

ISBN: 978-0-262-58195-0

  • Paperback
  • Engels
  • 380 pagina's
  • 7 aug. 2000

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.

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