caa a22 4500 463194624 CHVBK 20180406164919.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10669-007-9021-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10669-007-9021-z Bishop Andrew Environment, Behaviour & Society Research Group, Faculty of Architecture, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Sydney, Australia aut Outside the square? Aesthetic response to the contemporary architecture of Federation Square, Melbourne [Elektronische Daten] [Andrew Bishop] Recent measures introduced by Australian governments to improve the visual-quality of the built environment have been criticised as being too prescriptive. Two opposing models of people's aesthetic response to buildings have been proposed in the research literature. The preference-for-difference model has gained more support than the preference-for-prototype model but is at odds with current government policies. Both models are based on studies using photographs of buildings in laboratory settings, but have not been replicated through people's actual experience of buildings in the real-world. This paper reports on a field study conducted to examine whether the preference-for-difference model could explain the public's perception and aesthetic response to a building controversial for its contemporary architecture. Fifty people were interviewed in and immediately around Federation Square, Melbourne and asked to make aesthetic judgements of the Square. The public collectively found the building to be interesting, moderately unusual, and pleasing. The results supported the preference-for-difference model of aesthetic response. It is suggested that more field studies examining aesthetic response to buildings should be conducted. More importantly, and perhaps surprisingly, these findings suggest that to meet public aesthetic views, government policy should encourage diversity and innovation in design and aesthetics. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2007 Aesthetic preference nationallicence Contemporary architecture nationallicence Federation Square nationallicence Melbourne nationallicence Field study nationallicence Preference-for-difference nationallicence Government policy nationallicence Visual quality nationallicence Visual environment nationallicence The Environmentalist Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 27/1(2007-03-01), 63-72 0251-1088 27:1<63 2007 27 10669 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10669-007-9021-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10669-007-9021-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Bishop Andrew Environment, Behaviour & Society Research Group, Faculty of Architecture, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Sydney, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Environmentalist Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 27/1(2007-03-01), 63-72 0251-1088 27:1<63 2007 27 10669 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer