Background
Habraken, Nicholas John was born on October 29, 1928 in Bandung, Indonesia. Son of Jan W. Lodewijk Habraken and Julie L. Sophia Heyting.
( According to N. J. Habraken, intimate and unceasing int...)
According to N. J. Habraken, intimate and unceasing interaction between people and the forms they inhabit uniquely defines built environment. The Structure of the Ordinary, the culmination of decades of environmental observation and design research, is a recognition and analysis of everyday environment as the wellspring of urban design and formal architecture. The author's central argument is that built environment is universally organized by the Orders of Form, Place, and Understanding. These three fundamental, interwoven principles correspond roughly to physical, biological, and social domains. Historically, "ordinary" environment was the background against which architects built the "extraordinary." Drawing upon extensive examples from archaeological and contemporary sites worldwide, the author illustrates profound recent shifts in the structure of everyday environment. One effect of these transformations, Habraken argues, has been the loss of implicit common understanding that previously enabled architects to formally enhance and innovate while still maintaining environmental coherence. Consequently, architects must now undertake a study of the ordinary as the fertile common ground in which form- and place-making are rooted. In focusing on built environment as an autonomous entity distinct from the societies and natural environments that jointly create it, this book lays the foundation for a new dialogue on methodology and pedagogy, in support of a more informed approach to professional intervention.
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(The four essays in this book consider how the countless p...)
The four essays in this book consider how the countless physical objects that we live with appear in our human culture. For millennia use and making were inseparable, even when the latter knew specialization. In that age old mode of working things emerged as the product of collective understandings and shared images. Only recently what we now know as 'designing' appeared as a specific professional intervention. Designers produce 'appearances' of new things - in the way of drawings, models and descriptions - to arrive at an instruction for the making of them. As such, designing places itself between use and inhabitation on the one hand and making on the other. Evidence suggests that designing cannot replace the historic mode of creating objects, and is most beneficial when likewise rooted in a social body. The present digital publication is a re-edited version of the original print edition
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(The architecture / housing / urbanism book that launched ...)
The architecture / housing / urbanism book that launched the Supports / Open Building movement worldwide, this is the new second English edition of the seminal work published throughout the world, originally published in English as Supports: An Alternative to Mass Housing. In this book, author Nicholas John Habraken first proposed the support (base building) / infill approach to housing, an approach at the forefront of the housing and environmental movements, now implemented world-wide.
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Habraken, Nicholas John was born on October 29, 1928 in Bandung, Indonesia. Son of Jan W. Lodewijk Habraken and Julie L. Sophia Heyting.
Degree in architect, Technology University, Delft, The Netherlands, 1957.
Practicing architect, Voorburg, The Netherlands, 1959-1965. Executive director Foundation for Architectural Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 1965-1975. Professor architect technical University Eindhoven, 1967-1975.
Head department architect Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1975-1981, professor architect, 1975-1989, professor emeritus, since 1989.
(The architecture / housing / urbanism book that launched ...)
(The four essays in this book consider how the countless p...)
( According to N. J. Habraken, intimate and unceasing int...)
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Lieutenant Royal Air Force, The Netherlands, 1957-1959. Member Architect Institute Japan (honorary).
Married Emmie Marlene Van Hall, July 13, 1959. Children: Julie L., Gijsbert W.