Architect as Choreographer

An architect may choreograph all of the players in building design.  An architect may choreograph a process of designing or building to be used by non-architects.  Yet still, by shaping the physical environment we have to power to choreograph everyday life: as long as we understand it.  

For those who care relatively little about people and remain consumed by their architectural objects, architecture controls daily life in hostility.  When humans are treated as products that go through daily rituals we neglect to acknowledge the cognizance behind actions.

Eadweard Muybridge movement study

via Willian Whyte's "The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces"

This understanding goes beyond human form and physical interaction with the environment, diving into the emotional interaction with the environment and how that shapes human relationships.  William H. Whyte’s The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces dives into this on an observational level noting human action and interaction and how elements such as steps, chairs, trees and sunlight shape life and its regular ebbs and flows.  By concentrating on object rather than the persons the object becomes caught up in itself, further distancing the user.  

Form determines how the game is played.