Title & Author:

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

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1985.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (28 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
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.

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.

Subject:

Architecture Aesthetics.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture Esthétique.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture, Modern.

Added entries:

Habraken, N. J., narrator.