Malgorzata TOMCZAK
Social and emotional life
'Social and emotional life' is the theme of the May issue of A&B. The title, inspired by Leopold Tyrmand's book, is just an excuse to think about what moves us most in architecture. The detail? The material? The aesthetics? The proportions? Or perhaps the human being who is its user? We will be looking for the best projects in which architecture is a space for all kinds of social interaction. Hotels, designer and trendy bars, restaurants and cafes, cinemas, theaters, meeting places, public spaces, playgrounds, in other words, all those spaces where people meet, discuss, get to know each other, eat and drink, sleep and play, and which are the background of their lives - social and emotional. The interpenetration of everyday life and architecture in the context of social life will be analyzed.
We pose the questions: how do you create the atmosphere and mood of architecture, how do you design resident-friendly public spaces, how do you shape a city so that appropriate behavior can occur in it, social processes can take place, how do well-designed architecture and surroundings affect users? Where do we walk, spend time and why?
