Main entry:

Thiel, Philip.

Title & Author:

People, paths, and purposes : notations for a participatory envirotecture / Philip Thiel.

Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©1997.

Description:

ix, 379 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. Origins. The Communication Model. Notations. Envirotecture. Context and Plan. Acknowledgments -- The Human Drama. The Emerging Global Playwright. The Plot and the Players. The Environmental Stage Sets. The Dramatic Experience -- Technology, Tools, and Techniques. The Design and Management Process. Representation and Simulation. Media for Experiential Design. Response Techniques and Formats -- Experiential Envirotecture. The Experiential Model. Behavior Circuits. User-Participants. Experience. Environment. The Envirotectural Process -- User-Participant Profiles. Transducers. Coders. Attenders. Situational Qualifications. The Environmental Profile -- Experience Notation. The Experience Script. Actions. Feelings.

Summary:

Philip Thiel believes that environmental design and research should be based on the eye-level experience of the users in the course of their movement through the environment. He also argues that design should be primarily concerned with the self-identified and clearly specified needs and preferences of the users. He presents here a progress report on his forty years of work on the development of new tools and procedures necessary for the implementation of this approach in environmental design and behavioral research.
Thiel describes a user-oriented participatory process of environmental planning, design, and management. Named "envirotecture", it identifies and profiles the prospective users and flow-charts their proposed activities on site, in the context of their day. It then employs a representative sample of these users as consultants for the formulation of "experiential performance specifications" as part of the project program. Design development then proceeds with reference to the responses of these user-consultants to alternative designs in the form of simulated environmental sequences.
This book brings together a social awareness, a knowledge of environmental perception and cognition, and an operational design method in an unprecedented synthesis. It focuses on the central and critical concerns of socially responsible designers, as well as on the interests of researchers in environmental psychology, sociology, and anthropology.

ISBN:

0295975210 (alk. paper)
9780295975214 (alk. paper)
0295975229 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780295975221 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Human beings Effect of environment on.
Design Environmental aspects.
Environmental policy.
Environmental psychology.
City planning Research.
Landscape architecture Research.
Architecture and society.
Architecture Environmental aspects.
Communication in architectural design.
Architecture Psychological aspects.
Environmental Psychology
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement.
Communication en design architectural.
Architecture Aspect psychologique.
Êtres humains Influence de l'environnement.
Design Aspect de l'environnement.
Environnement Politique gouvernementale.
Psychologie de l'environnement.
Architecture du paysage Recherche.
Architecture et société.
environmental policy.
environmental psychology.
Architektur
Design
Umwelt
Umweltgestaltung
Ecologie.
Omgevingspsychologie.
Bouwkunst.
Ontwerpen.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 192579
Call No.: ID GF51.T48; ID:97-B3665
Status: Available