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Hernán Díaz Alonso (Buenos Aires, 1969) is an Argentine-American architect. He is Director/Chief Executive Officer of SCI-Arc in Los Angeles, and Founder and Principal of Los Angeles–based design practice HDA-X(formerly Xefirotarch). [ 1 ]
Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) is a private architecture school in Los Angeles, California. [1] SCI-Arc was founded in 1972 when it was initially regarded as both institutionally and artistically avant-garde. [2] It consists of approximately 500 students and 80 faculty members, some of whom are practicing architects.
Hernan Diaz (born 1973) is an Argentine-American writer. [1] His 2023 novel, Trust , was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction . His 2017 novel In the Distance was a finalist for the same Pulitzer Prize, [ 2 ] as well as the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction . [ 3 ]
Human Scale Development is basically community development and is "focused and based on the satisfaction of fundamental human needs, on the generation of growing levels of self-reliance, and on the construction of organic articulations of people with nature and technology, of global processes with local activity, of the personal with the social, of planning with autonomy and of civil society ...
A second view of need is presented in the work of political economy professor Ian Gough, who has published on the subject of human needs in the context of social assistance provided by the welfare state. [3] Together with medical ethics professor Len Doyal, [4] he published A Theory of Human Need in 1991. [5]
For many critics of high modernism, the Pruitt–Igoe housing project illustrated both the essential unlivability of Bauhaus-inspired box architecture, and the hubris of central planning. Its demolition on July 15, 1972, was the day “modern architecture died”, according to Charles Jencks.
Sociology of architecture is the sociological study of the built environment and the role and occupation of architects in modern societies. Architecture is basically constituted of the aesthetic, the engineering and the social aspects.
The phenomenology of architecture is the philosophical study of architecture employing the methods of phenomenology. David Seamon defines it as "the descriptive and interpretive explication of architectural experiences, situations, and meanings as constituted by qualities and features of both the built environment and human life".