Jan Gehl - O que falta no ensino da Arquitetura

I graduated in 1960 I was trained as an Architect in the 50s and what did we train in the 50s we we worship basilia that was the biggest the greatest n der koster Fantastic and we learned to make models and Hang Over the models and Move the objects around bingo This is a fine City and I rushed out of School of architecture to do all these wonderful things we learn School of architecture to make a Fantastic World for people then I married a psychologist and then at once she and her friends told Us Young architects

Why are you archit not interested in people what Why don't they teach you anything about people in School of architecture What Have you ever thought about Why do the professors go out at in the morning and take photos of the Arch OBS people on the photos to disturb The students when they give lectures I never thought about that much and that was Of course a wake call and then my wife and I weiz and social scien there was Nobody working there Nobody knew what influence the physical form had on life and then we decided that

we would have each of us to work to try to get more Knowledge about how the influence how the architecture influence the people how City planning influen The People I had to go back to architecture for architecture school for 4 more Years and what was I doing I was trying to make the people who used our cities and used our architecture visible because the people were not visible We knew nothing about people I met in at a conference in England architectural Critic He took up a piece of Glass Maybe a bottle Gl and he said

I feel sorry for you architects Because The Way You communicate your work is by by still photos but and in this way you get very much obsessed with the form but this is not architecture This is sculpture architecture is interplay between form and life and while it's very very easy to study form and communicate form and thr funny pictures in the head of other architects and St architects It's much more Complicated to find out about life and about the interaction between life and form but Only when the interaction between form and life is successful is

this good architecture I think that was Exactly what I started to study back