Editorial: “Expanding Normal: Towards A More Inclusive Approach to Designing the Built Environment”

Abstract

Architecture, at its very essence, is the process of providing physical space and place for human activity. Primarily concerned with responding to the specific needs of users and their societies, the built environment plays a tremendous role in shaping and facilitating the every day world we live in. Although being inextricably concerned with this man-environment dynamic, architecture however seems to limit its mainstream practices, education and standards to the conventional spectrum of “normal”. This leaves numerous user groups and victims of social circumstances largely excluded from the luxury of an architecture that deems itself specifically to serve them.

Citation

Mostafa, M. (2013), "Editorial: “Expanding Normal: Towards A More Inclusive Approach to Designing the Built Environment”", Open House International, Vol. 38 No. 1, pp. 4-6. https://doi.org/10.1108/OHI-01-2013-B0001