Posted by Shwan on June 22, 2002 at 03:58:35:In Reply to: psychology and architecture posted by christian gardner on June 20, 2002 at 06:14:12:
I have dedicated the past two years of my life to the study of the human mind and Freudian theories in relationship o sexuality and architecture. I have done research on the Freudian Trauma, and even looked into P.T.S.D (post traumatic Stress disorder) and how architecture can be use as part of the healing process of victims that suffer from that. I can not say that I have reached anywhere so far apart from gaining more ambition to carry on doing what I love most, and that is psychology and architecture. In response to a previous message in regards to this issue where someone mentioned that "all architects are interested in psychology" I find that hard to believe and some what find it insulting. I do not think all architects are interested in psychology, I would agree that all architects MAY be interest in proprioceptive Cognitive behavior, but then anyone that graduates from a semi decent school of architecture would have that notion engulfed in his mind by default. The classical order and the architecture of humanism. The Fail of modernism. What next? Capitalism? I shouldn’t really say next, because it is in existence at this very moment in time. Since the beginning of time architects/designers thought they understood what human needs and wants were, but they seldom reached a level of tolerance.
After world war one they impregnated western societies with socialist cancerous ideologies of communal living and council estates run by the government. All that did was add a few new words to our dictionaries "Ghettos" and "slums" and besides that create a state of unhappiness which increased the crime rate and spread the diseases. Myself living in Auckland New Zealand and having started my architectural education in the London, I am constantly comparing the two cities from an ethnic point of view. How different societies with different ethnicity react to each other and form symbiotic micro systems within the city. For example how the reason behind the higher crime rate in areas like South Auckland where the majority of the ethnic groups are Pacific Islanders, living in over crowded situations in low Cost State Houses. There are many different attributes to understanding the Psychology of architecture and they range from sociological implications to political ones and I don’t think many architects think on that level.
Neither do most of them understand human behavior, nor have the slightest understanding of human psychology.
In my opinion architecture is still at an infantile stage when it comes to psychological theory. I would recommend you listen to the pre-recorded online lectures by Mark Cousins (a psychoanalyst at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London.) This is the link. http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/lectures/psyche/Regards
shwan
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