![]() ![]() However, architects job is way more difficult since the actors in real life are ordinary people and the scenario is changing all the time, so the architect should be aware of the natural way of human action and time. Architects are shaping our lives, our living environment like a theatrical producer deals with the actors in the stage. Rasmussen is seeing a similarity between a theater producer and an architect. With writing this book, Rasmussen’s intention is to explain people how to experience architecture. He states that architecture cannot be explained like any other fine arts, it should be experienced. ![]() In Chapter 1, Rasmussen is emphasizing that Architecture is not something easily judged from just the exterior of a building like judging a book from its cover. In this text, I am going to write about Chapter 1 of the book, Basic Observations. ‘Om at oplev arkitektur’ was published in 1957 and the edition in English, Experiencing Architecture, came out in 1959. Steen Eiler Rasmussen was a Danish architect, a planner and a professor at the School of Architecture in Copenhagen. ![]()
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