Structure of the Ordinary Form and Control in the Built Environment

Name: Structure of the Ordinary Form and Control in the Built Environment
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ISBN: 9780262581950

ISBN-10: 0262581957

ISBN-13: 9780262581950

Edition: 2000 (Reprint)

Authors: N. J. Habraken, Jonathan Teicher

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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 authors 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…

Book details

Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/25/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 382
Size: 7.50" wide x 10.50" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 2.090
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Sources and Acknowledgments


Prologue


Introduction: Control and Form



Form, the Physical Order



The Physical Structure of Built Environment



Recognizing Levels



Hierarchies of Enclosure



Changes in Enclosure Hierarchy



The Act of Building



Other Forms at Play



Place, the Territorial Order



Territory



Observing Territorial Structure



Territory and Buildings



Gates



In and Out of Territory



Shifts in Territorial Structure



Understanding, the Cultural Order



Common Understanding



Patterns



The Systemic Environment



Systems Misunderstood



Type



The Uses of Understanding


Epilogue


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Illustration Credits


Index