ABSTRACT
That was a familiar tenet of twentieth century architecture, originally expressed by the Bauhaus school of design and popularized in America by the architects Louis Sullivan and his student Frank Lloyd Wright. Yet most architecture has focused on form, rather than function. It is as if the structure itself, harmony with the site, and integrity of the materials, has become the function. Less emphasis has been placed on the activities taking place inside the building. As a whole, the profession continues to be dominated by the view that architecture is a matter of aesthetics (Figure 3.1), and that form only follows form (Wikipedia, November 2006):
Architecture, by denition, is built for people. Architecture is the enclosure in which people live their lives. The behavior of people within the architecture demonstrates the dynamically moving social fabric of the human race (Heimsath, 1999). Any building must meet specic functional criteria, and from the function the design evolves. A building must permit efcient job performance, meet the needs of the user, and protect the user from safety hazards and criminal acts that affect the production of goods and service:
Architects worry about the fortress mentality of security professionals, whereas security professionals are concerned about the architects’ failure to include security elements into the design of
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