Structured evaluation of attitudes to dwelling environments : people’s subjective assessments of preference satisfaction and meaning as indicators of architectural design performance
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description: This Thesis is developed around twin topics. One aspect of the Thesis is an attempt to ascertain the extent to which structured research-techniques from the Social and Behavioural Sciences may be applied to investigations of various man-environment relationships and specifically of the contributions of Architecture in those relationships, - in this case within dwelling-environments. The other aspect of it, is an attempt to ascertain through people's subjective assessments, the preferences, satisfactions and meanings they recognise in various dwelling-environments; and then, to identify the kind and character of architectural components which prompt such recognition. Underlying the first aspect of the Thesis was a quest for a repertoire of research procedures with which to implement and sustain the Evaluative or Performance Approach to Architectural Design, Research and Education. Permeating the second aspect, was a quest for evidence of fundamental factors and concerns in people's experience of human settings, which could perhaps be identified as more or less common to a number of culturally or socially-identifiable groups - as it were, a general semantic-agreement, 'socially-contracted' as in other social behaviour and languages, of both the verbal and non-verbal kinds. Following a brief introductory review of present-day widely felt concerns about recent urban-design and development, seen as an offending environment for human-consciousness, Part 1 of the Thesis develops, against a motivating prospect of urban-crisis related to resource deficiencies, a theoretical framework embracing a commitment to the evaluation of human satisfaction in the designed environment and to appraising and predicting this environment's performance in accommodating that satisfaction. A discussion of Theoretical Commitments towards the twofold interests of the Thesis - in short, research process and research product - comprises an evaluation of survey techniques and the concepts they meas…
abstract: This Thesis is developed around twin topics. One aspect of the Thesis is an attempt to ascertain the extent to which structured research-techniques from the Social and Behavioural Sciences may be applied to investigations of various man-environment relationships and specifically of the contributions of Architecture in those relationships, - in this case within dwelling-environments. The other aspect of it, is an attempt to ascertain through people's subjective assessments, the preferences, satisfactions and meanings they recognise in various dwelling-environments; and then, to identify the kind and character of architectural components which prompt such recognition. Underlying the first aspect of the Thesis was a quest for a repertoire of research procedures with which to implement and sustain the Evaluative or Performance Approach to Architectural Design, Research and Education. Permeating the second aspect, was a quest for evidence of fundamental factors and concerns in people's experience of human settings, which could perhaps be identified as more or less common to a number of culturally or socially-identifiable groups - as it were, a general semantic-agreement, 'socially-contracted' as in other social behaviour and languages, of both the verbal and non-verbal kinds. Following a brief introductory review of present-day widely felt concerns about recent urban-design and development, seen as an offending environment for human-consciousness, Part 1 of the Thesis develops, against a motivating prospect of urban-crisis related to resource deficiencies, a theoretical framework embracing a commitment to the evaluation of human satisfaction in the designed environment and to appraising and predicting this environment's performance in accommodating that satisfaction. A discussion of Theoretical Commitments towards the twofold interests of the Thesis - in short, research process and research product - comprises an evaluation of survey techniques and the concepts they meas…
author: Bartlett, Peter John
language: en
license: https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm
date published: 1978
date modified: 2026-07-24T01:07:07Z
provider: University of Auckland
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
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source organization: ResearchSpace@Auckland

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