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Functionalism Revisited: Architectural Theory and Practice and the Behavioral
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Functionalism Revisited: Architectural Theory and Practice and the Behavioral Sciences Hardcover - 2010

by Jon Lang; Walter Moleski


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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 our contemporary concepts of architectural theory. Based on Abraham Maslow's theory of human motivations, and following on from Lang's widely-used text, Creating Architectural Theory: The Role of the Behavioral Sciences in Environmental Design, Lang and Moleski here propose a new model of functionalism that responds to numerous observations on the inadequacy of current ways of thinking about functionalism in architecture and urban design. Copiously illustrated, the book puts forward this model and then goes on to discuss in detail each function of buildings and urban environments.

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  • Title Functionalism Revisited: Architectural Theory and Practice and the Behavioral Sciences
  • Author Jon Lang; Walter Moleski
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition New edition
  • Pages 376
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date 2010
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9781409407010 / 1409407012
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Architectural
  • Library of Congress subjects Architecture and society, Functionalism (Architecture)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010011712
  • Dewey Decimal Code 720.1

About the author

Jon Lang is Professor at the University of New South Wales, Australia, ERG/Environmental Research Group, Philadelphia, USA and Walter Moleski, Professor at the Drexel University, USA, ERG/Environmental Research Group, Philadelphia, USA
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