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WELCOME TO YOUR WORLD
How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives
Drawing on new discoveries in cognitive psychology and neuroscience, a leading architecture critic reveals how the environments we build shape our feelings, memories, and well-being and shows how we must harness this knowledge to construct a world better suited to human experience.
Taking us on a fascinating journey through some of the world's best and worst landscapes, buildings, and cityscapes, Sarah Williams Goldhagen draws from recent research in cognitive neuroscience and psychology to demonstrate how people's experiences of the places they build are central to their well-being, their physical health, their communal and social lives, and even their very sense of themselves. From this foundation, Goldhagen presents a powerful case that societies must use this knowledge to rethink what and how they build: the world literally needs better-designed, healthier environments that address the complex range of human individual and social needs.
Buildings, landscapes, and cities must both contain and spark associations of natural light, greenery, climatological variation, and other ways of being in landscapes that humans have evolved to need and expect. Fancy exteriors and dramatic forms are never enough, and may not even be necessary: Goldhagen demonstrates that authentic textures and surfaces, and careful, well-executed construction details are just as important. Goldhagen takes readers on a fascinating tour of good and bad design in schools, homes, workplaces, and parks around the world. A vital, eye-opening guide to the spaces we inhabit, physically and mentally.
Sarah Williams Goldhagen taught at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design for ten years, and was the New Republic's architecture critic until recently. Currently a contributing editor at Architectural Record, she is an award-winning writer who has written for many national and international publications, including the New York Times, American Prospect, Art in America, Harvard Design Magazine, Landscape Architecture Magazine, L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, and the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. Twitter: @SarahWGoldhagen: http://bit.ly/1b5mIhA.
(Trim size: 6 x 9 inches. 288 pages. 150 color photographs)
Taking us on a fascinating journey through some of the world's best and worst landscapes, buildings, and cityscapes, Sarah Williams Goldhagen draws from recent research in cognitive neuroscience and psychology to demonstrate how people's experiences of the places they build are central to their well-being, their physical health, their communal and social lives, and even their very sense of themselves. From this foundation, Goldhagen presents a powerful case that societies must use this knowledge to rethink what and how they build: the world literally needs better-designed, healthier environments that address the complex range of human individual and social needs.
Buildings, landscapes, and cities must both contain and spark associations of natural light, greenery, climatological variation, and other ways of being in landscapes that humans have evolved to need and expect. Fancy exteriors and dramatic forms are never enough, and may not even be necessary: Goldhagen demonstrates that authentic textures and surfaces, and careful, well-executed construction details are just as important. Goldhagen takes readers on a fascinating tour of good and bad design in schools, homes, workplaces, and parks around the world. A vital, eye-opening guide to the spaces we inhabit, physically and mentally.
Sarah Williams Goldhagen taught at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design for ten years, and was the New Republic's architecture critic until recently. Currently a contributing editor at Architectural Record, she is an award-winning writer who has written for many national and international publications, including the New York Times, American Prospect, Art in America, Harvard Design Magazine, Landscape Architecture Magazine, L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, and the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. Twitter: @SarahWGoldhagen: http://bit.ly/1b5mIhA.
(Trim size: 6 x 9 inches. 288 pages. 150 color photographs)
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Published 2017-04-01 by HarperCollins |