Sociology of architecture

1800s: Martineau · Tocqueville · Marx · Spencer · Le Bon · Ward · Pareto · Tönnies · Veblen · Simmel · Durkheim · Addams · Mead · Weber · Du Bois · Mannheim · Elias Sociology of architecture is the sociological study of the built environment and the role and occupation of architects in modern societies.

The built environment which is made up of designed spaces and the activities of people are inter-related and inseparable.

Such sociological analysis of architecture can be found in the classic authors of sociology in Marcel Mauss, Walter Benjamin, Norbert Elias, Michel Foucault, Ernst Bloch, Siegfried Kracauer, Pierre Bourdieu, Maurice Halbwachs, Karel Teige and others.

Georg Simmel founded such a sociology of space and always watched the architecture of society.

Ronald Daus is introducing new concepts in this area, studying the history of extra-European Megacities..

Groups of people crossing the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Glass Bridge in China. Picture taken from the west side of the gorge.
Groups of people crossing the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Glass Bridge in China . Picture taken from the west side of the gorge.