Tuesday, January 27, 2009

People, Place, Occasion

We remember things by where we were or what we were listening to at the time that an event happened. Some say that great architecture should always take you back to a time and a place, it should create a memory or cause you to remember something that happened before. Figuratively speaking, architecture should be living. It should breath, react, and respond to the inhabitants, us.

As architecture is now, very few if any of the buildings we create respond to us in such away that causes us to respond and be happy with it. What can architects do to make people enjoy a building more? Can architect create a building that is more human like? By human like I mean can it respond to environmental changes, with or without the help of human kind?

1 comment:

JWash said...

So no one in my class responded to my post, perhaps it is because they can not see where the world could be going. I believe with the proper communication between architecture and construction disciplines we could create a building that is more human. By human I mean a building at a person can operate and adjust in such a way that it would create a more pleasant environment for themselves...meaning functioning windows for starters.