- Author
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Brill, M.
- Title
- User as the Basis for Architectural and Urban Design.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC
- Report
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NBS BSS 001
January 1970
- Book or Conf
- National Bureau of Standards. Performance of Buildings - Concept and Measurement. Proceedings of the 1st Conference in a Series of Conferences on Man and His Shelter. September 23-25, 1968,
Gaithersburg, MD,
Walton, W. W.; Cadoff, B. C., Editors,
21-25 p.,
1970
- Keywords
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building design
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housing
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planning
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architecture
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specifications
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standards
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test methods
- Abstract
- I'd like to talk about an evolution so rapid that it has many of the earmarks of a revolution. This is a report of things that are happening now to change our building technology: The entire process of how we build and all the products of that process. This evolution is called the systems approach and is an intellectural technology - a way of looking at problems, and a way of solving them. It is not necessarily a hardware-rich technology composed of reels of computer tape and electronic control gadgets (although it may employ these), but rather an elegant intellectual social instrument and a market mechanism to assure us that our new buildings and communities will be really responsive to our needs. It has as its hallmark emphasis on analyzing the intended users of physical environments and flexibility in developing solutions to their problems.