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Classical sociology of architecture
Sociology of architectonic artifacts
Urban sociology and sociology of
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Sociology of architecture is the sociological study of the built environment and the
role and occupation of architects in modern societies.

References Architecture is basically constituted of the aesthetic, the engineering and the social
aspects. The built environment which is made up of designed spaces and the
activities of people are inter-related and inseparable. It is for us to understand this
interrelationship and put it down appropriately on paper. Social institutions are many
and these social institutions sometimes need functional spaces to allow the people
using the building to benefit from all aspects of both, the purpose of what inhabits
the building and by the varied structure and organized flow of communication. The
way the buildings are designed to fulfill the needs of these social institutions /social
requirements can be said to be the compliance of social aspects in architecture.
Groups of people crossing the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon
Glass Bridge in China. Picture taken from the west side of the
Cultural sociology [ edit ]
gorge.

Architecture is the visual shape ("Gestalt") of society, and within that, all the various
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building types (architecture of consumption, of mobility, of the political and religious, as well as
factories, prisons, cinema buildings, etc.) could become objects of architectural sociology. For
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example: how a specific architecture 'expresses' the structure and principles of a given society.

Classical sociology of architecture [ edit ]

Such sociological analysis of architecture can be found in the classic authors of sociology in Marcel
Mauss, Walter Benjamin, Norbert Elias, Michel Foucault, Ernst Bloch, Siegfried Kracauer, Pierre History · Outline · Index

Bourdieu, Maurice Halbwachs, Karel Teige and others. Key themes [show]

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Sociology of architectonic artifacts [ edit ]
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The sociology of technology offers approaches to a sociology of (architectonic) artifacts. Initially, this Methods [show]
sociology is interested in technical matters. While buildings (as art and technic) are not in the core
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of this discipline. The perspective of architecture as artifact would be the question of 'interactions'
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between architecture and subject: how a very specific architecture suggests certain ways,
movements, perceptions. Society portal
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Urban sociology and sociology of space [ edit ]

The term "social space" is used by Pierre Bourdieu and others (in contrast to architecture or built environment) in a more abstract sense: as social
constituted spatial structures. Georg Simmel founded such a sociology of space and always watched the architecture of society.

Simmel unfolded also an urban sociology (his articles were read in Chicago school): in his question of the specific ways of life in big cities ( "Big
cities and life of spirit", 1903). Urban sociology primarily deals with social structures within the city: their points are for instance processes of
segregation, urbanization and the decline of cities. Recently, there is a research focus on "differences of cities", which will be more associated
with a sociology of architecture. Ronald Daus is introducing new concepts in this area, studying the history of extra-European Megacities..

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Urban vitality

References [ edit ]

Paul Jones, The Sociology of Architecture: Constructing Identities, Liverpool University Press 2010 (in print).
Leslie Sklair, "The Icon Project: Architecture, Cities, and Capitalist Globalization", Oxford University Press, New York, 2017.
Heike Delitz, Gebaute Gesellschaft. Architektur als Medium des Sozialen, Frankfurt/M., New York 2010.
Heike Delitz, Architektursoziologie. Reihe Einsichten. Themen der Soziologie, Bielefeld 2009.
Joachim Fischer/Heike Delitz (eds.), Die Architektur der Gesellschaft. Theorien für die Architektursoziologie, Bielefeld: transcript 2009.
Olivier Chadoin, Etre architecte : les vertus de l'indétermination - de la sociologie d'une profession à la sociologie du travail professionnel,
Presses Universitaires de Limoges, 2007.
Heike Delitz, Die Architektur der Gesellschaft. Architektur und Architekturtheorie im Blick der Soziologie, in: Wolkenkuckucksheim - Cloud-
Cuckoo-Land - Vozdushnyi zamok. Internationale ZS für Theorie und Wissenschaft der Architektur, 10. Jg. H. 1 (Sept. 2006): »From Outer
Space: Architekturtheorie außerhalb der Disziplin« (http://www.tu-cottbus.de/BTU/Fak2/TheoArch/Wolke/deu/Themen/051/Delitz/delitz.htm ).
Herbert Schubert, Empirische Architektursoziologie, in: Die alte Stadt 1/2005, 1-27
Joachim Fischer/ Michael Makropoulos (Hg.), Potsdamer Platz. Soziologische Theorien zu einem Ort der Moderne, München 2004
Bernhard Schäfers, Architektursoziologie, Opladen (Leske + Budrich) 2003 ISBN 3-8252-8254-6
Gieryn, Thomas: What Buildings do, in: Theory and Society 31 (2002), 35-74
Guy Ankerl, Experimental Sociology of Architecture. A Guide to Theory, Research and Literature, Mouton de Gruyter Publ. (The Hague, Paris,
New York)549 p. 1983 ISBN 90-279-3440-1 (paper) Hardcover ISBN 90-279-3219-0.
Anthony D. King (ed.), Buildings and Society: Essays on the Social Development of the Built Environment, London 1980
Robert Gutman, "Architecture from the Outside In: Selected Essays by Robert Gutman (ed. Dana Cuff, John Wriedt), Princeton Architectural
Press, 2010. "People and Buildings" (ed. Robert Gutman, Nathan Glazer), Transaction Publishers, 2009. "Architectural Practice: A Critical
View," Princeton Architectural Press; 5th edition, 1997.
www.architektur-soziologie.de task force Sociology of architecture in the German Sociological Association
Espaces et Sociétés « Sociologie et architecture : matériau pour une comparaison européenne », Olivier Chadoin et Viviane Claude (Coord),
n°142, juin 2010.
Chadoin Olivier, « Le sociologue chez les architectes – Matériau pour une sociologie de la sociologie en situation ancillaire », Sociétés
contemporaines, n°3/75, 2009.
Chadoin Olivier, "Sociologie de l'architecture et des architectes", Marseille, Editions Parnthèses, 2021.

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