Architecture and Public Dialogue: The role of Architecture Centers

The effective role of Architecture Centers in establishment of Architecture-Public dialogue by means of the functions that had undertaken by them is becoming increasingly important. Of course, Architecture Centers are not the single actors that had undertaken this role but unique in the sense of understanding architecture in a dialectical sense rather than just being a profession, action to build or a theoretical field. This book aims to make an evaluation of the role of architecture centers in that stimulating the formation of architecture-public dialogue as a two way interaction between architecture and the public in a dialectical sense. This book will come to the point that an architectural institute that has undertaken the new function; stimulating awareness, accessibility, participation and collaboration of both professionals and the public, in order to achieve increasing the quality of built environment and the quality of life, is named as "architecture center." Buket Demirel, Ekim 2011