ABSTRACT
To enrich our understanding of the elements of architecture with affect and lived experience is an attempt to address Robin Evans' remark on the absence of the way human figures occupy 'even the most elaborately illustrated buildings'. The use of film to improve efficiency in the kitchen was furthered by Frank B. Gilbreth's wife, Lillian Gilbreth, as in '1926 she began to carry out her own sophisticated motion study experiments on household tasks such as making a bed, setting a table, washing dishes, and baking'. The publication of the Elements of Architecture comprises 15 volumes that include the floor, the wall, the ceiling, the roof, the door, the window, the façade, the balcony, the corridor, the fireplace, the toilet, the stair, the escalator, the elevator and the ramp. Koolhaas identified them as recurrent and fundamental elements of architecture and that the number of these elements remains stubbornly the same.
