Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives Paperback - 2020
by Sarah Williams Goldhagen
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One of the nation's chief architecture critics reveals how the environments we build profoundly shape our feelings, memories, and well-being, and argues that we must harness this knowledge to construct a world better suited to human experience.
Taking an illuminating journey around the globe and into the brain, Welcome to Your World reveals that the built environment and its design matter far more than anybody, even architects, ever thought they did. Using cutting-edge research in cognitive neuroscience and environmental psychology, Sarah Williams Goldhagen articulates the ways in which a room, a building, or a city square affects us, and details our reactions to form, pattern, light, color, sound, texture, and more.
Expanding on these concepts, she walks us through some of the world's best and worst buildings, landscapes, and cityscapes, from the Parthenon in Athens to One World Trade Center in Manhattan, from Amiens Cathedral in France to Berlin's Holocaust Memorial, from the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris to the 798 Art District in Beijing. Supported by overwhelming evidence and clear-eyed analysis, she concludes that societies must reconsider what and how they build. Put simply: it requires the same resources to construct a building that impairs our capabilities as it does to erect a structure that enhances them. Ultimately the stakes--individual need and collective welfare--could not be higher.
Erudite, wise, and beautifully illustrated with more than 150 color photographs, Welcome to Your World is a vital, eye-opening guide to the spaces we inhabit, physically and mentally, and a clarion call to design for human experience.
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- Title Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives
- Author Sarah Williams Goldhagen
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Paperbacks
- Date 2020-03-10
- ISBN 9780062996046 / 0062996045
- Weight 1.9 lbs (0.86 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.1 x 0.9 in (22.86 x 15.49 x 2.29 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 724.6
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