The three ways of seeing the built environment / [presented by] N. John Habracken.

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Habraken, N. J., narrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Aesthetics.

Architecture.

Architecture, Modern--20th century.

Architecture, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 audio file (28 minutes)).

Place of Publication:

London, England: Pidgeon Digital, 1985.

Summary:

The Dutch architect N. John Habraken was born in Indonesia and trained at Delft University, where he also taught from 1958 - 1960. After five years of practice in Holland he became Director of the Architects' Research Foundation (SAR) in Eindhoven. Concurrently he was Chairman of the Department of Architecture and Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Eindhoven's Technical University, until he left for America in 1975 to become Professor and Head of the Department of Architecture at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was still working in 1985. He is author of several books and many articles on urban design and mass housing, in which he proposed using prefabricated "support structures" which could be individually filled in and given identity by the users. It was to further these ideas that the SAR was formed. His studies have continued in America, and in his talk he discusses the built environment and identifies the three ways in which it can be seen. One has to do with territorial order, one has to do with enclosure and resources, and one has to do with personal expression; three networks of social inter-connection that are inseparable and that need to be understood.

Contents:

N. John Habraken, 1984

Los Angeles Air View-Georgian House, Montgomery, Wales

Amsterdam Canal House

French 'Bastide' Town, Montpazier, Dordogne

Back Bay, Boston

Mexican Squatter Settlement

Oklahoma Land Rush

Plan Of Panama, 1673

Plan Of Priene, Greece, 3rd Century B.C.

The White House, Washington, DC

Edinburgh

New Town Air View

Beach, Spain

Gates As Sign Of Territory

Medieval Ideal Of Jerusalem

Gravity Form. Temple Ruins

Distribution Form. Tree

Enclosure Form. Great Wall Of China

Physical Form. Rock Fissures

Biological Form. Swans On Lake

Human Form. Plan Of Living Space

Areas Under Public Control. Piazza San Marco, Venice. Early Italian Painting.

Notes:

Title from publisher's website (viewed April 26, 2021).

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.