This book explores spiritual wellness as a foundational attribute to urban planning and design. Planning and design strategies are presented through case studies from around the globe that highlight the importance of spiritual wellness consideration...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1993, this title sets out to explain the nature of environmental psychology, how it was born, how it developed, its dominant subjects, principal actors and its present state in Europe at the time. It covers each European country,...Lasīt vairāk
Architecture and Social Behavior (1977) presents the findings from a five year programme of research concerned with evaluating the impact of architectural design on behavior. It details the changes in architectural design to understand the relations...Lasīt vairāk
Recipes for Urban Happiness offers an innovative way of looking at the relationship between people and place and redefines what good urban design is. The book outlines what designers and non-designers can do to create urban places where nurturing be...Lasīt vairāk
Focusing on the non-Western context and case studies, this book explores theories of interdisciplinary architectural thinking and the construction of urban memory in Chinese cities, with an emphasis on contemporary architecture and the diversity of...Lasīt vairāk
Interior Design on Edge explores ways that interiors both constitute and upset our edges, whether physical, conceptual or psychological, imagined, implied, necessary or discriminatory....Lasīt vairāk
Architecture and Spatial Culture argues that architecture matters because it makes the settings of our life intelligible, so that we can sustain or creatively transform them....Lasīt vairāk
Embodied Time endeavors to demonstrate how built environments can be designed to evoke positive recollections of the past, interactions with the present, and anticipations of the future....Lasīt vairāk
This book reveals how subjective and objective data gathered by innovative methods of measurement give us the ability to quantify stress, health, performance and wellbeing outcomes in different built environments....Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1969 Art in a Machine Age is based on four lectures given by Maxwell Fry at the Royal Academy in 1968 and offers an alternative approach to technocracy in the solution of major problems, especially those that concern the environme...Lasīt vairāk
Dialogues Between Psychoanalysis and Architecture explores the multisensory space of therapy, real or virtual, and how important it is in providing the container for the therapeutic relationship and process....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Nov-2023, Izdevniecība: RIBA Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781032651897)
Happy by Design reveals how architecture and design can make us happy and support mental health, and explain/show poor design can have the opposite effect....Lasīt vairāk
This book explores thin places, such as wonderful landscapes, inspiring works of architecture and urban design, and the numinous experiences that accompany them. In these spaces, there is a quality of experience that is often seen as an aesthetic pu...Lasīt vairāk
The kinds of architectural worlds children are exposed to in picture books during their formative years may influence how they regard such architecture as adults. This book reveals what stories are told about modern architecture and shows...Lasīt vairāk
This book methodically outlines key concepts in psychoanalytic discourse by reading them against key modern and post-modern architects. It should be of interest to anyone who is interested in how the environment we build is a reflection of our desir...Lasīt vairāk
Environmental and Architectural Psychology: The Basics addresses issues around sustainability, climate change, and behaviour, grounded in theory drawn from psychology, geography, and architecture, and is the ideal book for anyone interested in envir...Lasīt vairāk
In this book, Sanda Iliescu brings aesthetics back into the conversation, exploring the subject through compelling examinations of lived experiences of works of art and architecture....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Mar-2022, Izdevniecība: RIBA Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781003277897)
With easy-to-understand tips, real-world examples and over 100 hand-drawn illustrations, this book helps you to create happier places - from individual homes and workplaces to landscaping and urban design. It explores how factors, such as lighting, c...Lasīt vairāk
In this expanded second edition of Cognitive Architecture, the authors review new findings in psychology and neuroscience to help architects and planners better understand their clients as the sophisticated mammals they are, arriving in the world wi...Lasīt vairāk
This book presents the specialized area of person-centered health care design, which focuses on a persons design needs because of one or more health conditions and requires foundational knowledge pertaining to infection control, bio physiology, neu...Lasīt vairāk
This text is unique in bringing together a number of scholarly perspectives in the arts and humanities to examine how spatial and architectural design decisions convey meaning, shape or abet specific social practices, and stage memories of frontier...Lasīt vairāk
Icons of Sound: Voice, Architecture and Imagination in Medieval Art brings together art history and sound studies to offer new perspectives on medieval churches and cathedrals as spaces where the perception of the visual is inherently shaped by soun...Lasīt vairāk
The Invisible City explores urban spaces from the perspective of a traveler, writer, and creator of theatre to illuminate how cities offer travelers and residents theatrical visions whilst also remaining mostly invisible, beyond the limits of attent...Lasīt vairāk
This book argues narrative, people and place are inseparable and pursues the consequences of this insight through the design of narrative environments....Lasīt vairāk
Covering a broad range of international perspectives on place meaning from the United States to Europe, Asia to Russia, and Africa to Australia, this book is an essential read for students, academics and professionals alike....Lasīt vairāk
This fully revised, new edition of Innovations in Hospice Architecture responds to the need for an up-to-date, theoretically based reference book summarizing key historical and recent developments with respect to this rapidly evolving building type....Lasīt vairāk
Christopher Days philosophy will continue to inspire students with an interest in sustainable architecture, urban planning, and related fields....Lasīt vairāk
In 18 micro-essays, Digital Monuments exposes the stereotypes of iconic architecture while depicting the savagery of the industry, from the Greek and Spanish Crises triggered by financialised iconic development to mass labour-deaths on construction...Lasīt vairāk
Ceilings and Dreams encourages looking up through writings organized into three expansive categories: reveries, suspensions and inversions. The contributors contemplate the architecture of levity and the potential of the ceiling as a place for dream...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores how psychoanalysis and architecture can enhance and increase the chances of mental containment, while also fostering exchange between inside and outside. The way in which psychoanalysts take care of mental suffering, and the way...Lasīt vairāk
Cognition and the Built Environment argues that interacting with our built environment, as users and as architects, is a cognitive process. It claims that architecture, in its form and meaning is a basic, embodied level of human cognition....Lasīt vairāk
Focusing on Berlins destruction during WWII and its reconstruction, this book offers a rethinking of how the practices of destruction and burial combine to reform the city through geography and how burying a city is intricately tied to forgetting de...Lasīt vairāk
Examines the relationship between architecture, democracy and emotions after 1945, using case studies from Europe and the United States. An important read for students and researchers in architecture, urban studies, history, and political science....Lasīt vairāk
This book argues that any account of contemporary architecture that does not include understanding the role and function of media and its impact on the configuration of the city in the current mediatized-tele-technological-capitalist society is fund...Lasīt vairāk
With fifteen essays by scholars and professionals, from fields such as policy and law, Health and Well-being for Interior Architecture asks readers to consider climate, geography, and culture alongside human biology, psychology, and sociology....Lasīt vairāk
This book enlarges the understanding of architects, architectural students, designers and planners, alerting them to the many and complex issues involved in the experience of movement....Lasīt vairāk
The Death of Drawing explains how the shift from drawing by to hand to using building information models (BIM) is happening and the effect of this on how architects think and work....Lasīt vairāk
This book addresses the relationship between memory and place and asks how architecture captures and triggers memory. It examines how architecture exists as a physical entity and how it registers as a place that we come to remember, as well as wheth...Lasīt vairāk
Essays from internationally renowned contributors give a variety of perspectives of the role of memory in the built environment; how we have read it in the past, and how we can create it in the future. Essays range from broad topics of message and a...Lasīt vairāk
Illustrated with numerous drawings and photographs, Doorway is a stimulus to thinking about what can be done with architecture. The notebook style offers an example to student architects of how they might keep their own architecture notebooks....Lasīt vairāk
