Enriching our understanding of architecture through disability experience

Date added: May 12, 2014
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Authors: Ann Heylighen

The relationship between the built environment and the human body is rarely considered explicitly in contemporary architecture. In case architects do take the body into account, they tend to derive mathematical proportions or functional dimensions from it, without explicit attention for the bodily experience of a building.

Heylighen, A., Van Doren, C., Vermeersch, P. (2013). Enriching our understanding of architecture through disability experience. Open House International, 38 (1), 7-19.

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