摘要：This is the second of two papers on blueprints for a history of
Environmental Psychology. We have determined four stages: the
First Environmental Psychology, the American Transition,
Architectural Psychology, and Environmental Psychology for
Sustainability. The previous paper dealt with the former two stages.
We located their origins in early twentieth-century in Germany, with
Hellpach and other authors who spoke specifically about
Environmental Psychology. Definitions of boundaries of this stage
are somewhat fuzzy. The period projects themselves until the
1930s, with the migration of a significant number of German
psychologists to the United States. Thus began the ¡°American
Transition¡±. In this stage, that brings us to the end of the 1950s,
we followed the trace of the discipline during a time when it was
uncommon to speak about the existence of an Environmental
Psychology. However, it was at this time that a large part of the
theoretical foundations of subsequent stages were established.
This paper describes what some authors call the ¡°Second Birth of
Environmental Psychology¡± (Kruse and Graumann, 1987), and
what we label as the ¡°Age of Architectural Psychology¡±. In the
description of this period we identify a crisis of relevance and an
epistemological crisis at the end of the 1970s which, in the 1980s,
gives rise to a two-fold shift ¨C both social and green ¨C that results
in the formation of a new Environmental Psychology aimed at
sustainability at the turn of the century.
As a ¡®blueprint¡¯, this series of papers does not intend to offer a
comprehensive review of the contributions made to the field, but
rather aims to provide information in order to understand its
strengths and weaknesses, its common ground and contradictions,
and, in short, its construction as a theoretical and applied science.
