Architect is profession that active at design sector, which design space/room to be human dwelt like a house or even, the scale is bigger than that. From here, relationship human with space, even human with human become vital. Everyday concept important to be understood in order to produce architect work which more humanist. Human look as dwelt, and there are a lot of thing that related with human. Beside of that, there is concepts/ism and knowledge growing which have by human as dwelt. For that we have to remember main purpose of architecture, human.
Human with mind and think also environment influence can play as judge in architect achievement. An architect said succeeds if the work can be used in useful way for the dweller, also pleasant in mentally and physically. In searching a comfortableness, the architect should read a scenario which applied at each placed or concept of the place. So in work, architect will not produce alien thing at the place which the end become something useless.
Henri Lefebvre explained understanding about the everyday in The Everyday and Everydayness literature as following, , "...the everyday can therefore be defined as a set of functions which connect and join together systems that might appear to be distinct thus define" (Lefebvre, 1997). It means, connected and grouped function in order to make system become important to differ and at the end, can be defined for become reference in design.
"… the everyday is a product, the most general of product in an era where. Production engenders consumption and where consumption is manipulated by producers: not by "workers," but by manager and owners of the means of production ( intellectual, instrumental, scientific). The everyday is therefore the most universal and the most unique condition, the most social and the most individuated, the most obvious and the best hidden. A condition stipulated for legibility of form, ordained by means functions inscribed within structures, he everyday constitutes the platform upon which the bureaucratic society of controlled consumerism is erected." (Lefebvre, 1997)
"The everyday is therefore a concept .The everyday, established and consolidated, remain a sole surviving common sense referent and point of reference "intellectual," on the other hand, sees their systems reference elsewhere: in language and discourse, or sometimes in a political party. The proposition here is to decode the modern world, bloody riddle, according to the everyday" (Lefebvre, 1997)
It cleared, that everyday is a concept that related to intellectual, language, and conversation. The faced problem is how to learn meaning of code which cannot direct understandable, because there are no logic explainations. Because there is tight relation between knowledge growth and understanding, so confusing happen between party who run everyday concept and foreign that view. It is possible that we are the foreigner, so we need to understand local characteristic of the place we will design.
"The concept of everydayness does not therefore designate a system, but rather a denominator common to existing systems including judicial, contractual, pedagogical, fiscal, and police systems" (Lefebvre, 1997). So it good if we can see that denominator so it will more clearly.
"… the concept of the everyday illuminates the past" (Lefebvre, 1997). Everyday life have 'verynow' characteristic, but past is still take a part. 'Now' is continuous form of the past. If we know the past, it will be very helpful to view now perspective, and can decide what design that we will create. . "Everyday life has always existed, even if in ways vastly different from our own"(Lefebvre, 1997).
"The character of the everyday that always been repetitive and veiled by obsession and fear… The cyclical, which dominates in nature and the linear, which dominates in processes known as " rational." The everyday implies on the one hand cycles, nights and days, seasons and harvests, activity and rest , hunger and satisfaction, desire and its fulfilment, life and death, and it implies on the other hand the repetitive gestures work and consumption" (Lefebvre, 1997).
The everyday existence consist of cultural.So the architect have understand their client culture, because maybe our rationale principe differ than clients.
Reference
Berke, D. (1997). Thoughts on the Everyday. In Harris, S. dan Berke, D. (Ed.), Architecture of the Everyday. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.
Fausch, D. (1997). Ugly and Ordinary: The Representation of the Everyday . In Harris, S. dan Berke, D. (Ed.), Architecture of the Everyday. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.
Harris, S. (1997). Everyday Architecture. In Harris, S. dan Berke, D. (Ed.), Architecture of the Everyday. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.
Lefebvre, H. (1997). The Everyday and Everydayness. In Harris, S. dan Berke, D. (Ed.), Architecture of the Everyday. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.
