Revised position Statement:

I’m interested in exploring the psychological effects of architecture. I believe that all architecture has the ability to affect people’s personality and state of being.  I’m focusing on the effects that living in a public housing building has on community. I believe that by changing how a public housing building physically looks and how it reacts to it occupants has that ability to improve the quality of life of the occupants.

Revised Methodology:

After researching the history of the neighborhood of Homewood so I know whom I’m designing for and what their needs are.  I plan on working in digital and physical model form focusing on developing a plan that can be replicated throughout the neighborhood. I plan on setting up the model as if I was working with the same financial constraints as the community. This is important because I’m not trying to change the building so much that the currents residents won’t be able to afford to live there. 

Bibliography, Read to Date:

Jack Williamson. Design and Cultural Responsibility. Design Michigan , 1997

Amos Rapoport. Culture, Architecture and Design. Locke Science Publishing Co. 2005

Juhani Pallasmaa. The Eyes of the Skin. John Wiley & Sons LTD, 2005

Fuller Moore. Environmental Control Systems. McGraw-Hill Inc, 1993

G.Z. Brown and Mark DeKay. Sun, Wind & Light. John Wiley & Sons, 2001

Bibliography in Progress:

D. Bradford Hunt. Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing. University Of Chicago Press,October 1, 2010

Architecture for Humanity. Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises Metropolis Books, January 15, 2006

Bryan Bell, Katie Wakeford, Steve Badanes, and Roberta Feldman. Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism. Metropolis Books, October 1, 2008

Cynthia E. Smith. Design for the other 90%. Editions Assouline, September 30, 2007

Jeffrey Hou. Insurgent Public Space: Guerrilla Urbanism and the Remaking of Contemporary Cities. Routledge, May 27, 2010

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