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The Structure of the Ordinary: Form and Control in the Built Environment

The Structure of the Ordinary: Form and Control in the Built Environment

Habraken, N. J.
Teicher, Jonathan

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Series: Form and Control in the Built Environment

General Architecture

ISBN10: 0262581957
ISBN13: 9780262581950
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Aug 25 2000
Pages: 382
Weight: 2.30
Height: 0.80 Width: 7.40 Depth: 10.50
Language: English
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.

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