By analyzing ten examples of buildings that embody human experience at an extraordinary level, this book illustrates the centrality of the function role in architecture as a generating power in determining the structure. Using familiar twentieth-century buildings as case studies, authors present this information from a new perspective, based on concepts of job design. Here Grabow and Spreckelmeyer expand the definition of human use into an artistic form by re-evaluating these buildings from an aesthetic and environmental perspective of the function. Each building is described from the point of view of a major functional concept or idea of ​​human use which then spreads and affects spatial organization, structure and structure.

In doing so, each building is presented as a model that transcends the pragmatic concerns of a narrow program and illustrates how functional concepts can inspire great design, evoke a genuine human experience, and help us understand how architecture embodies the deeper purposes and meanings of everyday life. ..

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