ACADEMIC BOOK REVIEW – ARCHITECTURE DEPENDS
BOOK REVIEW ARCHITECTURE DEPENDS
Architects’ Journal 2020, Vol.01 Pg.73 Help@subscribe.architectsjournal.co.uk
Jeremy Till, Architecture Depends, pp. 232, ISBN-13: 978-0262012539 (Paperback with Ilustration), The Mit press, London, England, , Massachusetts Institute of Technology special_sales@mitpress.mit.edu
REVIEWED BY: Aldás Domenica, Endara Paulethe; daldas.arq@uisek.edu.ec mendara.arq@uisek.edu.ec INTRODUCTION The book tries to give a vision about how the architect should change his way of thinking when making architecture, for this the author gives us a series of ideas to follow to achieve the perfect architecture for the contemporary era, the author who speaks a Little about these same issues mentioned in the book Architecture Depends is John Habraken, who speaks in his book "Supports: An Alternative to Mass Housing," where he offers residents a meaningful and participatory role in the design process. In conclusion, both books talk about how society influences architecture and must commit to external conditions and, at the same time, the user must be important to the process of spatial production. Furthermore, the objective of the book is to show how the idealization of the architectural object participates in the transformation of the different biological, social and cultural needs of people; and that in this way there is a social interaction between the architect and its user. Furthermore, architecture is dependent on random factors such as ethics, time, politics, the environment, and people; Also, it is also offered to rescue architects with the construction design process, making them intervene with social values, and thus create purity, autonomy, and control in the design, involving people. Therefore, architecture has a conflict between design and what the architect wants to do, and according to this it will be linked to a process of construction of the space, but sometimes architecture is affected by the uncertainty of how it works. For this reason, it is necessary to see beyond the internal conditions of the architect and how external conditions influence to generate a good space. In addition to this, the book helps to know how the history of architecture is linked to these processes, whether internal or external, and according to this, how space is generated towards a specific user can be defined. In this way, it is criticized how architecture has been learned for several years, it is linked to an idea of perfection, but this goes beyond the ordinary and how architecture depends on a discipline of external factors. Finally, the book is linked to various architectural factors that transform the space towards the user, seeking the fullness of comfort, firmness, and delight. In summary, the book is persuasive since at the moment of reading the text, the person can change his way of thinking with the proposed topic and also the reader makes the decision of the topic he wants to find out and if he wants to read one chapter and the other not in all the ways the book can be understood. BOOK REVIEW The book is said to help analyze how architecture has other factors that go beyond an architectural object, which means that architecture must be functional, aesthetic and must have a specific social analysis so that