Building around people

摘要

Open nearly any architecture or construction magazine or visit their websites and you will see new buildings. These may be shiny, exciting, big, detailed, finely crafted - even iconic. What you are less likely to see are people. It would seem that we are to understand buildings as things that exist in the landscape or the city and that they are best understood (and enjoyed?) as an image. From an aesthetic point of view, it may be understandable that a photo of a building or interior can better show the design when there aren't bodies in the frame. However, there is an underlying issue that buildings are often designed and constructed with, in my opinion, very little consideration of the users - people.