Lived Space

User-Centred Strategies for Architecture and Urban Design
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-17194-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 370 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

Lived Space: User-Centred Strategies for Architecture and Urban Design argues that a building or a city is completed by the people who inhabit it. Design begins a place; use, adaptation, and appropriation fulfil it. Drawing on phenomenology, the social production of space, environment–behaviour studies, and architectural and urban traditions, the book puts the experience of users at the centre of how environments are conceived, assessed, and transformed. Its approach is set out through six theoretical prisms, each offering a different account of how space is perceived, produced, and inhabited. It follows places beyond handover, through the years in which they are occupied and given meaning, and it takes that record of use as the real measure of design.

The book examines forty settings across seventeen countries and six continents, with cases from the Global North and the Global South. Three empirical sections move through working and learning environments, residential environments, and urban and everyday environments. Their chapters enter workplaces, schools, campuses, and cultural facilities; follow residents of social housing, migrant workers, and older people seeking intergenerational living; and walk the streets, squares, and protest sites where cities are contested, reclaimed, and remade. Post-occupancy evaluation, behavioural and cognitive mapping, walking tours, participatory workshops, and digital co-assessment show where places support people and where they fall short, and set the intentions of designers and institutions beside the accounts of users. Five glossaries define 128 concepts at the point where each is developed, giving readers a shared vocabulary across disciplines and settings.

A final section turns these findings into a repertoire of strategies, twenty tools, and twenty exercises. Each is tied to the theory and cases that inform it and can be adapted to the consultancy brief, the design studio, or the community workshop. Lived Space brings user knowledge into briefing, design, evaluation, and teaching. It is written for architects, urban designers, planners, educators, students, and researchers committed to environments that support wellbeing, belonging, and dignity in everyday life.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Salama, Ashraf M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gestaltung, Darstellung, Bautechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Innenarchitektur, Architekturdesign
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Ökologische Aspekte in der Architektur
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Berufspraxis
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technik: Berufe & Ausbildung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

INTRODUCTION — INHABITATION FULFILS WHAT DESIGN BEGINS  SECTION 1: THEORETICAL PRISMS OF LIVED SPATIALITY  1. Phenomenological Foundations and Embodied Space 2. The Social Production of Space and Meaning-Making 3. Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Understanding the Lived Spatial Experience 4. Environment-Behaviour Studies and Lived Space 5. Lived Space in Architectural and Urban Traditions 6. Contemporary Challenges, Transdisciplinarity, and Social Innovation  SECTION 2: THE LIVED SPACE IN WORKING AND LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS  7. Designing Workplaces for Lived Human Experiences 8. The Spatial Qualities of the Workplace and Users’ Satisfaction 9. Creating Lived Environments Conducive to Learning 10. Lived Learning Environments Unveiled through Participatory Methods 11. Unpacking the Lived Space in Diverse University Campus Environments 12. Pedagogy and the Lived Space in Schools of Architecture 13. Studies on the Lived Space in Museums and Art Centres  SECTION 3: THE LIVED SPACE IN RESIDENTIAL ENVIRONMENTS  14. Housing Policies and Socio-Spatial Segregation 15. Lifestyles, Migrant Workers, and Housing Typologies 16. Mega Projects, Labour Housing, and Sustainable Development 17. Social Exclusion, Elderly Housing, and Intergenerational Living 18. Narrating Social Deprivation in Residential Neighbourhoods 19. Quality of Urban Life Models and Residential Environments  SECTION 4: THE LIVED SPACE IN URBAN AND EVERYDAY ENVIRONMENTS  20. Acts of Protest and Designing for Antagonistic Forces 21. Legitimised Traditions and Shaping Urban Spectacles 22. Spatial Practice, Cognitive Mapping, and Experiential Assessment 23. The Everyday Environment and the Spatial Practice of Migrant Communities 24. Characterising the Qualities of the Urban Realm 25. Digital Technology and People: Co-Assessing Urban Open Spaces  SECTION 5: STRATEGIES FOR ARCHITECTURAL AND URBAN DESIGN PRACTICE AND PEDAGOGY  26. Co-Creation and Lived Space: Practising the Theoretical Prisms 27. Co-Creation Strategies for Working and Learning Environments 28. User-Centred Design Research Strategies for Residential Environments 29. Assessment Strategies for Urban and Everyday Environments 30. Integrating the Strategies: Lived Space across Practice and Pedagogy CONCLUSION — LIVED SPACE AS A SUSTAINED SECOND COMPLETION

Über Autor(innen)

Ashraf M. Salama is an Egyptian-British scholar, Professor of Architecture and Urbanism and Head of the School of Architecture and Built Environment at Northumbria University, Newcastle. Co-Director of the UNESCO-UIA Architectural Education Commission, he has led four schools of architecture in Egypt, Qatar, and the United Kingdom. He holds an honorary professorship at Universiti Putra Malaysia and has held tenured and visiting positions across nine countries. He was educated at Al-Azhar University in Egypt and at North Carolina State University in the United States. He has secured over £2.5 million in research funding and published more than 250 outputs, including 20 books and 170 articles and chapters in leading publications on architectural pedagogy, sustainable urbanism, and the assessment of designed environments. His books include Demystifying Doha: On Architecture and Urbanism in an Emerging City (2013, with Florian Wiedmann), Spatial Design Education: New Directions for Pedagogy in Architecture and Beyond (2015), Building Migrant Cities in the Gulf: Urban Transformation in the Middle East (2019, with Florian Wiedmann), Transformative Pedagogy in Architecture and Urbanism (2009; Routledge Revivals edition 2021), The Routledge Companion to Architectural Pedagogies of the Global South (2023, co-edited with Harriet Harriss and Ana González Lara), Algorithmic Colonialism in Architecture: Decolonising AI for Pedagogy, Research, and Practice (2026, with Madhavi Patil), and The Participatory Design Legacy of Henry Sanoff (2026, with Celen Pasalar and Zeynep Toker). He has supervised more than 25 PhD theses to completion as primary supervisor and has examined over 40 doctoral theses nationally and internationally. He is Chief Editor of Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research and recipient of the UIA 2017 Jean Tschumi Prize for Excellence in Architectural Education and Criticism.