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Discrimination of the Poor by the Modern Architectural Designs

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Discrimination of the Poor by the Modern Architectural Designs

Abstract

The paper looks at architectural trends. It sheds light on who has been benefiting from

architectural designs and why. Despite the desire for the pleasant designs, their implementation is

expensive and unfordable to the poor. Architects had less considerations for the low income

earners.

Keywords

Architecture- is the art of developing designs and using them to construct buildings.

Building typology-is the study documentation and study of sets of building that have their form

or type of function.

Poor- people who cannot afford to live in building which uses advance architecture.

Architectural Design-refers to concept focusing on the elements or components of a system or

structure and unifies them into a functional or coherent whole based on a particular approach in

achieving the objective under the existing constrains or limitations.

Architecture

Architecture is the art of developing designs and using them to construct buildings. It is

widely used in construction and designing beautiful backgrounds for actions movies in Hollywood

and house walls. Architecture has also been used in creating furniture of different shapes and

appealing to people. It has contributed greatly in developing cities through the construction of tall

and attractive building, bridges and roads to minimize traffic. Therefore, architecture is a problem

identification technique and finding a solution to a problem through creativity to coming up with

a design plan to handle the problem. In its implementation, architectural design calls for huge

capital for a successful implementation and due to this reason low-income earners tend not be part

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of it since they cannot afford the designs and capital to implement them when offered. Therefore,

this paper discusses how architectural experts have neglected the city, the poor and middle-class

people to concentrate on the rich people following cost and availability constraints.

Discrimination of the poor in the construction of architectural buildings started back in the

time of Le Corbusier who was the planner of modern houses. According to Le Corbusier, Pierre

Jeanneret (1971) used to construct beautiful buildings following the architectural revolution. In

their constructions cost and availability constraints made them not to consider low income earners

because they constructed lavish buildings which can only be used by stars and rich people who

have the power to pay. In their construction, they focused on environments which had fewer

constraints regarding cost and availability which could be afforded by the rich people. The

common features of the buildings they construct are very high to be afforded by the low-income

earners. Due to this reason, the poor had no reason to appreciate the beautiful work of the architects

since they are not part of it. Therefore, people could only appreciate what they could access and

afford.

According to Learning from Pop, Denise Scott Brown considered renewal of urban cities

to be socially harmful since it does not have economic benefit to the architects. Following the

criticism Herbert Gans argued that high style architects should produce what people want/need for

them to be appreciated for their work. Additionally, during those times it did not consider average

people who cannot afford that high class life because their earnings do not allow them. Denise

Scott Brown argued that the architectural sensitivity is characterized by what people need and

pluralism. The sensitivity to people need is determined by the income range, lifestyle, and family

composition. All the architects tend to go to super stars’ people to design and implement new

things for them since rich people are not constrained by the cost of building houses as the poor and

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middle-class people does. The condition of people in various classes of income brings architectural

behaviorism to architects in that if low-income earners cannot afford to live in expensive houses

it becomes a constraint to architects thus making them look for other environments where such

restrictions are minimal. Denise Scott Brown argued that environments which have fewer

constraints are such as Hollywood, today Las Vegas, home of sportsmen and film stars where

maintenance of the building is encouraged since their standards rises vertically as compared to the

poor It is easy argued that due to this reason architects have concentrated on wealthy people who

can afford their designs and readily available leaving cities not renovated, poor and middle-class

people without proper shelter since cannot afford their architectural designs.

According to the pop culture, architects should not ask what people want but survey and

look for what people need. However, in this scenario architects are focused on rich people whose

needs are less leaving low-income earners who are needier. According to John Kenneth Galbraith,

the irony in popular culture and popular landscape was evident when he did not consider housing

the poor and renew the city. John Kenneth dwelled with economics and his actions were followed

his colleagues which lead to forming architectural radicals which oppressed the poor by designing,

developing and redeveloping large public and private companies which provided huge sum of

money. This discrimination created a wide gap between the rich and the poor over their shelters.

The architectural typology used in the two articles is the popular culture which is applied by the

architects in renewing and building houses for rich people and those cities which does not have

constraints of cost and availability of rich people. This is a technique applied in building calls for

high rental cost since they are of high class and complex designs. All the architects in both articles

have used popular culture in all their constructions proving that pop culture is the best architectural

typology in constructing amazing and complex artifacts.

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Conclusion

In conclusion, if the disparity in architectural behaviorism is not worked upon in time, it

will cause imbalance in development across the nation. This will be depicting a bad picture to other

countries on how low-income earners have been discriminated from development. This

discrimination will be showing how architectural art is biased by not constructing affordable

houses for low-income earners by obeying the principle of pluralism that meant constructing

houses for humanity. The architects should employ formal analysis in their operations to ensure

people within different range of income are taken care of giving low-income earners a reason to

appreciate the work of the architects. By considering low income people by housing them makes

them grateful since their living standards have been raised.

Summary

This paper has outlined logic behind architectural discrimination to the poor. It explains

that the implementation costs are too high for low income earners to afford. The paper suggests

consideration of the poor in architectural designs so that everyone benefits from the art.

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References

Le Corbusier (1930), “The Plan of the Modern House.” Introduction to Architectural Theory.

Brown D.S (1971). Learning from Pop. Architectural Theory since 1968, 2000, edited by K.

Michael Haya. Casabella 359-360 Dec.1971

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