Originally published in 1970, EDRA 1 is a record of the conference proceedings of the 1st annual Environmental Design Research Association conference. The papers featured in this volume represent the proceedings of the conference and are concerned mainly with contributions of scientific disciplines towards the creation of improved methods of problem-solving environmental design, as well as understanding the nature of human responses to the environment. The papers included in this volume focus on developing models and methods towards a framework of coherence and definable structure of environmental design, with the ultimate objective of achieving an optimum environment for man. This volume will be of great interest to planners, architects and academics of urbanisation alike. Although published over 40 years ago, the books content is still as relevant and interesting today as it was at the time of publication.
Preface Biographical Sketches Part I: Introduction
1 An Approach to the Study of Environmental Quality, Amos Rapoport
2. Environmental Humanism Through Robots, Nicholas Negroponte
3. Architectural Manipulation of Space, Time and Gravity, James Fitch
Part II: Performance Systems
4. Residential Space Systems: Generic and Specific Concepts of Urban
Structural Analysis, Peter Batchelor
5. Planning for Community Mental Health Centers: The Performance Approach,
Michael Brill and Richard Krauss
6. Patterns and Semiology, Francis Duffy and James Friedman
7. Chairmans Comments, Stuart Silverstone
Part III: Environmental Attributes
8. Visual Determinants of Preferences for Dwelling Environs, Raymond Craun
9. A Study of Meaning and Architecture, Robert Hershberger
10. The Quality of Visual Residential Environments, George Peterson
11. Chairmans Comment, Richard Wilkinson
Part IV: Environmental Quality
12. Switching on the Seven Lamps, William Mitchell
13. Problem Solving in the Spatial Environment, Fred Steel
14. Chairmans Comments, Richard Wilkinson
Part V: Problem Solving Methods in Design
15. Theoretical Premises of Problem Solving, Charles Eastman
16. Visual Information Processing in Problem Solving Situations, Joseph
Ballay
17. Towards the Computerization of Architecture: A Theoretical Framework and
a Partial Computer Program, Isao Oishi
18. Fundamental Description of a Floor Plan Design Program, John Grason
19. Chairmans Comments, Charles Eastman
Part VI: Human Responses to the Environment
20. Analytical Sampling for Design Information: A Survey of Housing
Experiences, William Michelson
21. Toward a Theory of Accessibility Acceptance, Richard Worrall, George
Peterson and M.J. Redding
22. Chairmans Comments, Ray Studer
Part VII: Environmental Perception
23. Towards a Stimulus-Response Theory of Environmental Design, Stuart Rose
24. A Study of Human Response to Selected Roadside, Gary Winkel, Roger Malek
and Philip Thiel
25. Chairmans Comment, Dan Carson
Part VIII: Attitudinal Responses to the Environment
26. Behavioral Design Criteria in Student Housing, Wolfgang Preiser
27. Chairmans Comment, Man Sawhney
Part IX: Models in Planning
28. Locational Decisions: Objectives and Consequences, Wilferd Holton,
Bernard Kramer, Peter New, Grazia Marzot
29. A Decision Agent Modeling an Approach to Planning for Urban Residential
Growth, Edward Kaiser
30. Chairmans Comments, George Hemmens
Part X: Decision Models
31. Toward a Theory of Technical Descriptions for Architecture, Charles
Burnette
32. Matrix Method for Grouping an Interrelated Set of Elements, William
Miller
33. Modelling the Activity System, Donald Watson
34. Chairmans Comments, Murray Milne
Part XI: Participatory Planning
35. The Community Development Workshop, Ralph Brill, Eric Castro and A.J.
Pennington
36. Identifying Community Leaders, Henry Burgwyn
37. Negotiate: An Experimental Planning Game, David Godschalk
38. Chairmans Comments, Barry Jackson
Part XII: Design Education
39. An Experimental Approach to the Study of Critical Judgement, John
Peterson and Leonard Lansky
40. Towards an Experimental Program in Design Education, George Bireline
41. Chairmans Comments, Marvin Sevely
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