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EMERGENCY SHELTER

EMERGENCY SHELTER “It IS clear that we need t o understand the underlying structure of a culture and its relation to the physical forms before we can design. This knowledge must be specific rather than general, both for design and implementation, and open-endedness may be an important consideration. We must study the vernacular forms since they show most clearly the relations between life styles, values and physical form, the relation of social structure to dwelling, dwellings to the larger environment and so on. The traditional housing and settlement forms, and their associated social and cultural patterns, should be seen as the point of departure rather than being ignored.” (Rapaport, 1973). A consideration of Emergency shelter prompts the observation that there must be few subjects in the spectrum of man’s buildings where so much effort has been expended, so much money spent, and yet where paradoxically so little is known or more precisely, where so little knowledge has been documented. Among a total of 46 studies, covering 12 disasters which have occurred since 1960, I have found (Davis, Fig. 1. Refugees in India following the mass migration from Bangladesh April 1971. (Credit: Rainer Kruse, Stuttgart, W. Germany). IAN DAVIS 1975b) only http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Disasters Wiley

EMERGENCY SHELTER

Davis, Ian
Disasters , Volume 1 (1) – Mar 1, 1977
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Wiley
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Copyright © 1977 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
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0361-3666
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1467-7717
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10.1111/j.1467-7717.1977.tb00006.x
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“It IS clear that we need t o understand the underlying structure of a culture and its relation to the physical forms before we can design. This knowledge must be specific rather than general, both for design and implementation, and open-endedness may be an important consideration. We must study the vernacular forms since they show most clearly the relations between life styles, values and physical form, the relation of social structure to dwelling, dwellings to the larger environment and so on. The traditional housing and settlement forms, and their associated social and cultural patterns, should be seen as the point of departure rather than being ignored.” (Rapaport, 1973). A consideration of Emergency shelter prompts the observation that there must be few subjects in the spectrum of man’s buildings where so much effort has been expended, so much money spent, and yet where paradoxically so little is known or more precisely, where so little knowledge has been documented. Among a total of 46 studies, covering 12 disasters which have occurred since 1960, I have found (Davis, Fig. 1. Refugees in India following the mass migration from Bangladesh April 1971. (Credit: Rainer Kruse, Stuttgart, W. Germany). IAN DAVIS 1975b) only

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Disasters – Wiley

Published: Mar 1, 1977

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