2024-12-22T04:00:29-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/150328935/the-revival-of-human-centered-architecture Saad Rajan 2022-11-10T08:23:00-05:00 >2022-11-17T20:01:08-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/8f/8f05fe0564e9bac9cde7ddb9d36bc888.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>For too long, we have incessantly glorified freshly-poured concrete Romanesque columns and marveled over crumpled-paper-inspired museums. This isn&rsquo;t real architecture. The real architecture that is worth observing, touching, feeling, admiring, studying, critiquing, and understanding is the one that lives in the unassuming shadows. The type made for ordinary people with ordinary lives; one that seeks not to occupy the cover of architectural digest, but to improve the lives of those who have been marginalized, under-designed-for or forgotten. Architecture where the artist fought for a little more sunlight, a little more fresh air&mdash;a little more space to plant a tiny tree that blossoms during gloomy, winter days, inspiring hope where it was seemingly lost. It is these artists and these battles that need our acknowledgement, our praise, and our motivation so that they may continue to design a better world.</p>