ABSTRACT

‘Everywhere we see evidence of alienation, the fraying of the social fabric, the breakdown of community. Commercial architecture contributes to these trends. Academic architecture – Post Modernism – is in retreat from these painful realities. Social architecture, * limited so far as its adherents and its armamentarium, remains to probe, to test, to propose new solutions that at once satisfy immediate needs and open up new visions of life and work…. Rekindling the desire for architecture and for the city is the task that social architecture sets for itself.’