COMMUNITY AND PRIVACY

In 1963, the book "Community and Privacy: Toward a New Architecture
of Humanism" edited by Serge Chermayeff and Christopher Alexander,
was published. In their detailed analysis, they propose a new kind
of urban order, structured to provide clearly delineated areas in
which different human needs – in hierarchies ranging from public
urban life to individual solitude – can be met without interference
or conflict with other activities. These are intended to create a
rational order of physical relationships based on human qualities.
It's a coincidence that 61 years after the book's publication, we
meet the publisher's grandson, Sam Chermayeff, in our podcast today
to once again talk about community and privacy. Sam Chermayeff is
also an architect, designer and educator and is particularly
interested in how we can renegotiate private spaces to make our
lives more open.