Seating Arrangements

Architects design built environments. They also often manage the process that ensures that designs are built as intended. Their purpose, therefore, is to improve human life. Create timeless, free, joyous spaces for all activities in life. As we live and work in built environments for a large proportion of our lives and construction has very large global impacts, Architects also have a responsibility to design buildings that respond to people, local communities, economies and environments as well as global issues such as climate change. By modifying climate certain human activities could be carried out in comfort. The architect has to plan for any kind of human activity that must inquire into the essence and its purpose. Then came functionalism, that architecture has to satisfy pre-fixed purposes called the program. Architecture seems to have become merely an inexact applied science. But this fall of Architecture from humanities isn’t because it has become functional, because functionalism in modern times is too mindless. In addition, Paul Goodman says that a problem in seating and planning too, to emphasize that when we design a human activity we need a human reference. In the book, he describes seating arrangement for 4 types of therapy: the Character Analysis, the Gestalt therapy, the Freudan therapy, the Sullivanian therapy that is a face to face therapy. Each one of them is applied by a specific seating plan.