Architecture From the Outside In

by Gutman, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781568988962
• ISBN10: 1568988966
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-03
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Pr

Summary

Today, in the midst of critical challenges facing the architectural profession-from the economic crisis to an urgent need for longer-lasting, more affordable, and greener construction-architects are compelled to reconsider the relationships between architecture and society, and between buildings, their users, and the environment. No single individual did more to build this sociospatial discourse than Robert Gutman. Sometimes referred to as the sociological father of architecture, Gutman is known for writing and teaching that initiated a conversation about the occupants of buildings and the forms, policies, plans, and theories that architects might shape. A sociologist by training, Gutman infiltrated architecture's ranks in the mid-1960s. Over the next four decades, he played a major role in articulating the interaction between social behavior and the environment: his work demonstrating a relationship between racial segregation and substandard housing was published around the same time that the Civil Rights Act was signed into law and race riots erupted across the United States. Gutman's contribution to Daniel Patrick Moynihan's Toward a National Urban Policy (reprinted in this book) suggested that policy can positively affect social action if it aims to produce ownership among the working poor. In his later years, Robert Gutman's research into the workings of architectural practice and design education helped forge the profession's understanding of itself. Throughout his career Gutman wrote about architecture and taught generations of future architects, primarily at Princeton University's School of Architecture, while still maintaining the "outsider" status that allowed him to see the architectural profession in an insightful, unique, and always honest way.

Author Biography

Dana Cuff is a professor of architecture and urban design at the University of California, Los Angeles.

John Wriedt is an architect and writer who lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 8
Acknowledgments	p. 10
A Note on the Dialogues	p. 11
Before and Beyond Outside In	p. 13
Introduction	p. 27
Practices
Architecture: The Entrepreneurial Profession	p. 32
Professions and Their Discontents: The Psychodynamics of Architectural Practice	p. 43
The Designer in Architectural Practice	p. 61
Pre-form and Post-form Design Activism	p. 76
Design and Contemporary Practice	p. 81
Fitting In: Architecture in the Art Gallery	p. 86
Buildings and Projects
Human Nature in Architectural Theory: The Example of Louis Kahn	p. 94
House VI	p. 119
Building Evaluation, User Satisfaction, and Design	p. 127
Asking Questions	p. 144
An Architecture of the Workplace	p. 148
Sociology and Architecture
The Questions Architects Ask	p. 152
Site Planning and Social Behavior	p. 186
Sociologists in the Studio: Conflict and Cooperation	p. 202
Parallels and Connections	p. 207
Housing
A Sociologist Looks at Housing	p. 214
U.S. Architects and Housing: 5 Relationships	p. 227
Two Questions for Architecture	p. 239
Translating the Harsh Speech of the Developer: Robert Gutman and the Design of American Housing	p. 246
Modern Housing: A California Story	p. 251
Architectural Education
Educating Architects: Pedagogy and the Pendulum	p. 258
Discipline Building	p. 287
Two Discourses of Architectural Education	p. 297
The Place of the Public in Architectural Education: A Case Study in Kentucky	p. 309
Welcome to the Banquet (or, How to Increase the Relative Happiness of the M. Arch. Thesis Student)	p. 313
The Activist Entrepreneur	p. 318
Selected Bibliography of Publications	p. 326
Index	p. 330
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