Rethinking Architecture: Design Students and Physically Disabled PeopleThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987. |
Contents
by Raymond Lifchez | 11 |
An Open Letter to Architects | 35 |
Clients as People | 53 |
Hidden Agendas | 67 |
Using the User Well | 81 |
Dispelling Stereotypes | 97 |
The Vitalizing Challenge of Dissonance | 123 |
Group Cohesion and Openness | 155 |
Conclusion | 181 |
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Rethinking Architecture: Design Students and Physically Disabled People Raymond Lifchez Limited preview - 1986 |
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