Dear Colleagues:
The crucial fact about design is that electronic dproducts and bikes etc.,
are just a tiny part of one's life while housing/dwellings/home is the
integral part of one's life.
Few would ever wish to have one's life rotate around an innovative housing
design. Innovativeness in this contemporary world means something quite
alien to everybody.
regards
Satoshi Kose
At 11:14 +0100 99.4.28, Stephen Bailey wrote:
> I suspect the problem of ultra-conservative approaches to housing design in
> the UK is very complex and historical, and has little to do with good
> architects preferring higher profile projects. If, say, Richard Rogers were to
> be approached by one of the major builders to produce innovative concepts; I
> am sure he would be intrigued and excited by the idea. In reality, however,
> the brief would probably be restrictive and would require some nostalgic
> imagery to indicate "this is a home" to the bulk of the population.
>
> But this will have to change. The changing patterns of lifestyle and family
> units, and the pressure on available land leading to the increasing spread of
> estates of ever-smaller boxes like a stain around our towns, needs imaginative
> and flexible answers. Perhaps if one large house builder had the courage to
> try, and to market the results in the way that electronic products and
> mountain bikes are, the (particularly English?) backward-looking trend could
> be reversed?
> --
> Stephen Bailey
> Institute of Design
> School of Law, Arts and Humanities
> University of Teesside TS1 3BA
> 01642 342362
Satoshi Kose, Dr.
(The following is effective as of 1st April 1999)
Director, Housing & Building Economy Department
Building Research Institute, Tatehara, Tsukuba 305-0802 Japan
tel.+81-298-64-6611; fax.+81-298-64-6771; [log in to unmask]
http://www.kenken.go.jp/5bu/skose/TG19.html
http://www.kenken.go.jp/universal/7UDP.pdf (Sorry, this is in Japanese)
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