Functionalism Revisited

Architectural Theory and Practice and the Behavioral Sciences

af Jon Lang

A range of current approaches to architecture are neglected in our contemporary writings on design philosophies. This book argues that the model of ''function'' and the concept of a ''functional building'' that we have inherited from the twentieth-century Modernists is limited in scope and detracts from a full understanding of the purposes served by the built environment. It simply does not cover the range of functions that buildings can afford nor is it tied in a conceptually clear manner to ou... (Læs mere)