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Architecture has the ability to have psychological effects of the people that occupy and observe it.
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Architecture is people and people are architecture. One cannot exist without the other and they both have a direct effects and influences on one another. Architecture is our past, present and future. Architecture will be our future, which is if we as a people still have one.
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To me architecture is a direct representation of people put into the built environment. The architecture of the past and present ends up taking on the characteristics of the architect that designed it and the client that wanted it built.After the architecture is built it begins to take on a life of its own. The ideals in that life have a direct correlation to the ideals and wants of the parents that raised it. Then when that child is exposed to other people, they start to affect their lives. The affects are both positive and negative. But if you continue to experience that child time and time again, that experience starts to have a permanent effect on you. Which in turn you pass on to someone else, the same way the child gave it to you. This child is architecture and there is no way of running from it. The only thing that we can hope to do is try to refine it in way that makes society better instead of separating it. Just because some architecture doesn’t have a lot of money put into it shouldn’t mean that the people who occupy it should feel like that they’re worth the same relative amount.
It sounds like the major issue which arises here is the time invested at the beginning of the project by both the architect and the client is not proportional to that invested after the project is completed. The project is then exposed to outside influences which may cause the intent of the project to be lost. It seems that this could be a main focus of your thesis is how more care/time/interest can be invested in these developments (regardless of good or bad design) post construction. Also, you talk about the future of architecture and people, are you looking into environmental or sustainable factors of this housing as well?
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