ABSTRACT
Instead of the passive user, this chapter considers the reactive user and the creative
user. For reasons of self-protection architects, collectively as a professional body
attempting to monopolize a practice, often devalue the user. However, a number of
individual architects recognize the influential role of the user in the formulation of
architecture. This chapter discusses architects’ awareness of user creativity, while
the next focuses on writers’ and artists’ evaluations of the creativity of the reader,
viewer and user, and their influence on architects.
