environmental design
The lecture introduces the term environmental planning, which was used by American architects who worked after World War II to describe a professional vision rooted in the legacy of American progressive politics, rather than in the European avant-garde. This approach emphasized scientific inquiry and democratic processes as factors driving social reform, and was based on the perception of humans as organisms in need of a supportive environment. The history of the term environmental planning expands our understanding of modernism and modernist architecture, especially in the post-war period.
Dr. Abigail Sachs is a researcher and expert in the field of residential theory in architecture and a professor in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Tennessee in the United States.