Anthropology of space: An organizing Model Reaction.

     In his article, Hall, focuses on how the people react and/or behave in different spaces. He starts this chapter by defining space. He defines Space as what one sees, and also explains another factor about space, which is how mental images of different places assimilates throughout people's lifetime. Hall also talks about the level of infra-cultural of humans which is how behavior about man's biological pass. Hall explains that architects must think about the infra-cultural level to avoid problems from the past. One of the examples he gives is the Black Death, he talks about how that events tells designers and architects the effects of crowded cities and that you should think about the size of the space you are designing. In his essay, Hall, also talks about the relationship of fixed-feature space, which is a way to  organize activities of people. He talks about how different rooms serve as a fixed-feature space, because every room, especially in America, has its own purpose. Even if the space doesn't have walls you can tell that an imaginary lines divides two spaces, like the living room and kitchen. Hall also talked about the relationship of the fixed-feature space to the personality of people. In one of his interviews he is talking to a women and says the following: "If any of the men who designed this kitchen had ever worked in it, they wouldn't have done it this way" in other word she is trying to say that men (which are probably architects) did not design the space in the kitchen correctly in relationship to the women. I believe is true sometimes you look in the kitchen and women are always asking family members to hand them something like on the other side of the room or even on the top shelve. When you observe such events, I personally thing of the way designers can design the space in the kitchen better so that women can do their chores in a pleasant way. Sometimes designers do not think about the environment and spaces people would live on and that is one of the main things Hall talks about in his essay. Hall wants designers to think about the people and the relationship of buildings and people.