Full Description
Buildings are essentially social and cultural products. They result from social needs and accommodate a variety of functions - economic. social. political. religious. Their size. appearance. location and form result not simply from physical factors such as materials. climate or technology. nor from architects· designs. but from a society's ideas. its forms of economic and social organisation. and the beliefs and values which prevail at any one time. Society produces its buildings and the buildings help to maintain many of its social forms.
Contents
Introduction Part I 1 A convenient place to get rid of inconvenient people: the Victorian lunatic asylum 2 The modern hospital in England and France: the social and medical uses of architecture 3 Design and reform: the 'separate system' in the nineteenth-century English prison Part II 4 The Hindu temple in south India 5 The apartment house in urban America Part III 6 A time for space and a space for time: the social production of the vacation house 7 Places of refreshment in the nineteenth-century city 8 Office buildings and organisational change Part IV 9 Vernacular architecture and the cultural determinants of form
