W04 Reading Reflection: Politics and the Situationist International

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Anthropological architecture seems to be an obvious solution as a response to design. Designing for people, obviously involves a certain socio-cultural analysis and application. The idea of design as either functional/structural or as a response to people and cultural/political situations is a simplification of a greater economical issue within design. Investing in buildings usually involves the necessity for large profit margins which results in poor design and quality of materials. These cuts result in poor communication of space, function and the potential of use and future growth and usage. To study the needs of spaces on an anthropological level seems to be a dream of most architecture students, resulting in a beautifully crafted building that caters to the needs of  more than investors; the "social constitution of man", if you will. 

As a broad perception of design, it is usually interior designers that have the advantage of these considerations, with greater ability for detail and with much smaller scales and lower ratio of budget, have a greater opportunity for considerate design. As seen in the images, the interior is far easier to consider within the realm of human needs. It doesn't have the same implications as structural design (seen in the second images) which relies on the hard, masculine and political looking features.