Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (873 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01IMXLW3U |
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| Number of Pages | : | 269 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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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
"This brilliant book opened my eyes to the world around me" according to Dan Lyons. This brilliant book opened my eyes to the world around me and helped me see my environment in new ways. Goldhagen is advocating for better design, design that is more human-centric and connects us to nature. She's a former professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design and a well-known architecture critic, and she has spent her entire life trying to understand the process by which the built envi. "A breakthrough in architectural theory!" according to hana k. A real breakthrough in architectural theory, Sarah Williams Goldhagen has brought to light and articulated clearly what many of us may know by intuition: Design matters and it affects peoples' well-being and lives well beyond the attention it is given. This book is written in a very accessible manner and leads the reader through with ease and with just the right amount of supporting evidence, ma. "Excellent Study in Environmental Architecture!" according to Jason D Andreas. Welcome To Your World is an excellent study in the environment around us - how it effects us, how it shapes our feelings, how it impacts our wellbeing. You don't have to be an architect, designer or builder to understand the incredibly interesting examples that Mrs. Goldhagen clearly illustrates (often with fantastic pictures). She dives deep into both well and poorly designed environments, both
Buildings, landscapes, and cities must both contain and spark associations of natural light, greenery, and other ways of being in landscapes that humans have evolved to need and expect. From this foundation, Goldhagen presents a powerful case that societies must use this knowledge to rethink what and how they build: the world needs better-designed, healthier environments that address the complex range of human individual and social needs.By 2050 America’s population is projected to increase by nearly seventy million people. Going forward, we must do everything we can to prevent the construction of exhausting, overstimulating environments and enervating, understimulating ones. 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 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 e
Ground breaking, informed, and inspired.” (Mikyoung Kim, Landscape Architect)“Welcome to Your World will go far to help us create healthy, equitable, and thriving cities. CHANIN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AT COOPER UNION. “Goldhagen’s book lays the groundwork for the cognitive neuroscience of architecture.” (TERRENCE SEJNOWSKI, FRANCIS CRICK PROFESSOR AT THE SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES)“A feast for the mind…with a vital message: We can and must capitalize on this new knowledge to build more human-centered urban environments. This is extremely powerful stuff.” (Faith Rose, f