7.1 | Pros and Cons of this Two-Fold Approach
Pros
* Breakthrough in relationship between architects and scientists
* Importance of planned housing in densely populated areas
* Recognition of the impact of environment on people
* Became basis for subsequent influential textbooks
* Established discourse between architect and client/homeowner
* Application of climate-sensitivity to aesthetic sensibility transformed climate control into a fashionable design trend
* House Beautiful articles beautifully mask the scientific underpinnings
* Publications help structure one another
* Gave a voice to the consumer
* Legitimation to the design professional
* AIA legitimated House Beautiful among competitors
* Magazine provided concrete architectural examples where AIA Bulletin did not
* Established precedent of forging relationships between researchers and funding sources
Cons
* Has not become a standard design guideline
* Deals only with residential construction
* Publications were never published together or to a wider audience, limited period of ease of accessibility
* Differing attitudes between publications
* Portrayal of strategies to homeowner may overstate effectiveness or devalue importance
* Discontinuity at times in the intention of the project
* Marketed to the single-family-home-owner
* Liberties House Beautiful took portrayed climate-sensitive design as a trend (detracts from its necessity)
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