The Structure of the Ordinary
Form and Control in the Built Environment
by N. John Habraken ; ed. by Jonathan Teicher

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Auteur(s)

N. John Habraken

Editor(s)

Jonathan Teicher

Uitgever

Cambridge, Mass. ; London : The MIT Press, 2000

Omvang

339 p., geïllustreerd, 27 cm.

ISBN

0262082608

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"The Structure of the Ordinary" summarizes my observations of, and theories about, the built environment as a self organizing entity. It reflects my long term conviction that we must try and understand the workings of the built environment to improve, from the knowledge thus gained, our attempts to enhance it. To understand something as complex as our built environment we must seek what is common in its many manifestations and constant in its transformations. As with all studies of physical phenomena, patterns of change reveal the laws it is subject to. At the same time, change is caused by our interventions. Therefore, by learning to see environment in terms of change, we also learn to understand the ways in which we organize ourselves as agents acting upon it.

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Trefwoorden

urban planning

Extra thema's

Body and Architecture, Body and Space, Residents and the built environment ;

Opmerkingen

Incl. bibliographical references and Index.