Logics in Dialogue

Chapter 2 , Logics in Dialogue , describes the dominant disciplinary views, attitudes, and approaches towards the broad topic of the built environment from architects and from sociologists. We describe what matters about space and the social to each of the disciplines, and what each is missing. We speak about the processes of abstraction engaged in by both disciplines, as architects design for the non-social individual and sociologists study the non-specific place. To explain the origin of these standards, but also prior attempts at bridging the disciplines, we outline a history of architecture in relation to the social, and of sociology in relation to space. We acknowledge and describe prior efforts to stitch together architecture and sociology and offer our views about why those might have not endured the test of time.