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The New Paradigm
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By
Selwyn Goldsmith, Architect
Description
Selwyn Goldsmith's Designing for the Disabled has, since it was first published in 1963, been a bible for practising architects around
the world. Now, as a new book with a radical new vision, comes his Designing for the Disabled: The New Paradigm.
Goldsmith's new paradigm
is based on the concept of architectural disability. As a version of the social model of disability, it is not exclusively the property
of physically disabled people. Others who are afflicted by it include women, since men customarily get proportionately four times as
many amenities in public toilets as women - and women have to queue where men do not - and those with infants in pushchairs, because
normal WC facilities are invariably too small to get a pushchair and infant into.
To counter architectural disability, Goldsmith's line
is that the axiom for legislation action has to be 'access for everyone' - it should not just be 'access for the disabled', as it presently
is with the Part M building regulation and relevant provisions of the 1995 Disability Discrimination Act. In a 40-page annex to his
book he sets out the terms that a new-style Part M regulation and its Approved Document might take, one that would cover alterations
to existing buildings as well as new buildings. But architects and building control officers need not, he says, wait for new a legislation
to apply new practical procedures to meet the requirements of the current Part M regulation; they can, as he advises, act positively
now.
This is a book which will oblige architects to rethink the methodology of designing for the disabled. It is a book that no practising
architect, building control officer, local planning officer or access officer can afford to be without.
Audience
Architects and interior designers, building control officers and local authority planning officers.
Contents
(1) The evolution of accessibility controls; (2) Architectural disablement; (3) Britain: how accessibility controls might be reformulated;
Annex A: The proposed Built Environment (Accessibility) Act: Draft Model for Authorized Guidance Document; Annex B: Housing; Appendices;
References and Bibliography, Index.
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 480 pages, publication date: NOV-1997
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-3442-7
ISBN-10: 0-7506-3442-1
Imprint: ARCHITECTURAL PRESS
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