Gutman, Robert. “The Social Function of the Built Environment.” The Mutual Interaction of People and their Built Environment. Ed. Amos Rapoport. Paris: Mouton Publishers, 1976. 37-50. Print.
This article is about the built environment’s impact on a person’s behavior and social organization. It shows how built environments are created in a way to produce the behavior of a person that is desired. Architects design buildings and such to create specific reactions to the environment. Gutman also explains how architects design buildings in a way to improve social communication.This article has shown me that every built environment in Atlanta, or any other place for that matter, is built the way it is to create a certain reaction from the people using the environment.
This source gave a lot of explanation behind the relationship between the built environment and a person’s behavior. It explained why things are built and set up the way that they are. Gutman gives perfect examples to show how the architectural designs of built environments can produce the behaviors that they are supposed to. For instance, he used the example of how a lecture hall is set up the way it is to have students focused on the speaker. I found no flaws within this source. This article reinforces what I have read in my other two sources about how the built environment can have a large impact on the people who use it.
