Christie Johnson Coffin, Jenny Young

Making Places for People (eBook, ePUB)

12 Questions Every Designer Should Ask

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Making Places for People explores twelve social questions in environmental design. Authors Christie Johnson Coffin and Jenny Young bring perspectives from practice and teaching to challenge assumptions about how places meet human needs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317506799
• Artikelnr.: 47907120

Autorenporträt

Christie Johnson Coffin practices architecture in the Western United States and internationally in Taiwan, India, and Nicaragua, with a focus on social design for health-care and research laboratory buildings. Her university teaching includes the University of California, Berkeley, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, California Polytechnic University, and the University of Oregon. She is the co-author of Changing Hospital Environments for Children.

Jenny Young teaches design and human factors in design. Her research on small town development focuses on the roles public buildings play in town stability and vitality. Her architectural practice includes consulting on schools, libraries, clinics, and designing residential projects. She is Professor of Architecture at the University of Oregon.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. What is the story of this place? 2. Whose
place is this? 3. Where is this place? 4. How big is this place? 5. What
logic orders this place? 6. Does this place balance community and privacy?
7. What makes this place useful? 8. Does this place support health? 9. What
makes this place sustainable? 10. Who likes this place? 11. What evidence
is there that this place will work? 12. Does this place foster social
equity? Afterword Bibliography Index