Popularity Of Television And Magazines On Designing Individual Space

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to investigate whether these interior style magazines and television programmes are doing social engineering by suggesting 'lifestyles' to which we (the general public) have to conform. Therefore previous approaches to social engineering through architecture in the 20-century, by architects such as Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright will be examined in chapter one. Nigel Coates' 'Oyster House' will also be discussed to highlight the change in the nature of western society from 1940's architecture to present day, and the impact of the media on architecture and lifestyle today.

The current trend for cheap and chic, self-build 'designer' furniture is also on the rise with the increase of 17% consumer expenditure on DIY since 1993 (MINTEL 24/06/98 p.12). The projected forecast of 30% in 2002 is due to the increase of IKEA stores (MINTEL 24/06/98 p.12) from the first store in Warrington in 1987 to 9 in 1999 across England. Habitat in 1964 can be seen as igniting that current trend of ...

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homes? Or is the media's encouragement of 'I am = what I have and what I consume' (Dittmar, 1992, p2) dictating how we should live?


Chapter one - Architect imposition on Occupier

The aim of this chapter is to discuss previous attitudes towards 'social engineering' through architecture, using the key architects Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright and comparing them to a present day architect, Nigel Coates. It will look at how these architects imposed a lifestyle on the occupier and this will later help to explain the dictatorship of the media over the individual of today.

Le Corbusier's dictatorship over the middle class socio-economic group

Le Corbusier (1887 - 1965) is one of the ...

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