Psychology And The Aesthetics Of The Built Environment

Author : Arthur E. Stamps
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781475763263

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Recent legislative trends in the United States, the United Kingdom, and many other countries now require accurate and efficient assessment of environmental aesthetics. Most of this assessment is currently undertaken using traditional design judgment, but when the powers of the government are used to enforce policy the scope of the aesthetic evaluation requires consideration of questions such as `What concepts will aesthetic decision makers need to perform their intended function?', `How can they obtain the information they need?', and `What is currently known about environmental aesthetics?'. This book answers those questions with a solid, logical theory of environmental aesthetics, empirical evidence covering 277 studies, 41,000 respondents and 12,000 stimuli, and seven case histories showing how the theory can be applied to actual aesthetic decisions. The book proposes a unified protocol for measuring the magnitude of aesthetic impacts. It also applies that protocol to 94 specific findings which span a very wide range of issues.

Author : Arthur Stamps
Publisher : Springer
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1475763271

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Psychology and the Aesthetics of the Built Environment by Arthur Stamps Pdf

Recent legislative trends in the United States, the United Kingdom, and many other countries now require accurate and efficient assessment of environmental aesthetics. Most of this assessment is currently undertaken using traditional design judgment, but when the powers of the government are used to enforce policy the scope of the aesthetic evaluation requires consideration of questions such as `What concepts will aesthetic decision makers need to perform their intended function?', `How can they obtain the information they need?', and `What is currently known about environmental aesthetics?'. This book answers those questions with a solid, logical theory of environmental aesthetics, empirical evidence covering 277 studies, 41,000 respondents and 12,000 stimuli, and seven case histories showing how the theory can be applied to actual aesthetic decisions. The book proposes a unified protocol for measuring the magnitude of aesthetic impacts. It also applies that protocol to 94 specific findings which span a very wide range of issues.

Author : Antje Flade
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783658349172

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Compendium of Architectural Psychology by Antje Flade Pdf

This essential provides planning-relevant information on architectural psychology concepts and empirical results on the effects of built environments on people, and provides guidance on how to optimize the relationship between people and the built environment. This Springer essential is a translation of the original German 1st edition essentials, Kompendium der Architekturpsychologie by Antje Flade, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2020. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.

Author : Jack L. Nasar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1992-07-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521429161

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Environmental Aesthetics by Jack L. Nasar Pdf

How do people react to the visual character of their surroundings? What can planners do to improve the aesthetic quality of these surroundings? Too often in environmental design, visual quality--aesthetics--is misunderstood as only a minor concern, dependent on volatile taste and thus undefinable. Yet a substantial body of research indicates the importance of visual quality in the environment to the public and has uncovered systematic patterns of human response to visual attributes of the built environment. Efforts to understand environmental aesthetics have been undertaken by investigators from such diverse fields as landscape architecture, environmental psychology, geography, philosophy, architecture, and city planning. As a result the relevant information is scattered and not readily available to professionals and policy makers. The book brings together classic and new contributions by distinguished workers in different disciplines. It explores theory and data on preferences in the visual environment, and also addresses the practical application of aesthetic criteria in design, planning and public policy. Promising directions for future research are identified.

Author : David V. Canter,Terence Lee
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015009405047

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Psychology and the Built Environment by David V. Canter,Terence Lee Pdf

Author : Robert B. Bechtel,Arza Churchman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780471188476

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Handbook of Environmental Psychology by Robert B. Bechtel,Arza Churchman Pdf

An international team of leading scholars explores the latest theories, research, and applications critical to environmental psychology Featuring the latest research and concepts in the field straight from the world's leading scholars and practitioners, Handbook of Environmental Psychology provides a balanced and comprehensive overview of this rapidly growing field. Bringing together contributions from an international team of top researchers representing a myriad of disciplines, this groundbreaking resource provides you with a pluralistic approach to the field as an interdisciplinary effort with links to other disciplines. Addressing a variety of issues and practice settings, Handbook of Environmental Psychology is divided into five organized and accessible parts to provide a thorough overview of the theories, research, and applications at the forefront of environmental psychology today. Part I deals with sharpening theories; Part II links the subject to other disciplines; Part III focuses on methods; Part IV highlights applications; and Part V examines the future of the field. Defining the ongoing revolution in thinking about how the environment and psychology interact, Handbook of Environmental Psychology is must reading for anyone coping directly with the attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that are destroying our environment and putting our lives in jeopardy. Topics include: * Healthy design * Restorative environments * Links to urban planning * Contaminated environments * Women's issues * Environments for aging * Climate, weather, and crime * The history and future of disaster research * Children's environments * Personal space in a digital age * Community planning

Author : Tomás Llorens Serra
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015006332657

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Meaning and Behaviour in the Built Environment by Tomás Llorens Serra Pdf

Author : Gary T. Moore,Robert W. Marans
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781475744255

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Toward the Integration of Theory, Methods, Research, and Utilization by Gary T. Moore,Robert W. Marans Pdf

This fourth volume in the Advances in Environment, Behavior, and Design series continues the intent of earlier volumes by exploring new directions in the multidisciplinary environment-behavior (EB or EBS) field. The series is organized around a framework of theory, methods, research, and utilization that some say has defined the field for the past 15 years. This fourth volume is devoted to chapters that explore the integration of theory, quantitative and qualitative research, and utilization in policy, planning, and architec ture. The authors selected for this volume exemplify the multidisciplinary character of the field-they have been selected from architecture, environ mental psychology, environmental studies, housing research, landscape ar chitecture, social anthropology, social ecology, urban design, and urban planning; from academe and practice; and from Australia, Europe, and North America. HISTORY OF THE ADVANCES SERIES The idea for the series emerged in 1983 at meetings of the Board of Directors of the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA). Sev eral publishers were contacted about the possibility of an EDRA Annual Review. Eliot Werner at Plenum Press expressed great interest but suggested that an Advances series would be more appropriate since publication could be tied to a less specific timetable. EDRA, Plenum, and the editors signed a contract in June 1984 for three volumes, with an open door for oral agreements between Plenum and the editors after that time. Four volumes have been published (Volume 1, 1987; Volume 2,1989; Volume 3,1991; and the current Volume 4), each containing 10 to 12 chapters.

Author : D. Canter,T. Lee
Publisher : Halsted Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1975-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0470134615

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Psychology and the Built Environment by D. Canter,T. Lee Pdf

Author : Dak Kopec
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781501316845

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Environmental Psychology for Design by Dak Kopec Pdf

Environmental Psychology for Design, Third Edition, shows how rooms and buildings can affect an occupant's behavior and health by explaining psychosocial responses. Recipient of the American Society of Interior Designers Joel Polsky Prize, the book introduces you to the discipline of environmental psychology and encourages you to embrace its key concepts and use them in your practice. This new edition adds information about aging and vulnerable populations and has updated resources and research. Features -Cultural Connection and Sustainability Connection box features highlight the great diversity in the application of the subject ideas and concepts -Point of Views (POVs) highlight different professional opinions and practice beliefs to show that many esteemed scholars can hold differing or complementary views -All new Learning Objectives outline what you will learn in each chapter New to this Edition -New and updated examples, including neurobiological development and decline, basic understanding of the nervous system, and discussion of hypotheses and theories with an emphasis on the biophillia hypothesis -Increased emphasis on evidence-based design methods -New organization integrates ideas into concept-driven chapters Environmental Psychology for Design STUDIO -Study smarter with self-quizzes featuring scored results and personalized study tips -Review concepts with flashcards of terms and definitions

Author : Ann Sussman,Justin B Hollander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317932307

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Cognitive Architecture by Ann Sussman,Justin B Hollander Pdf

*Winner of the Environmental Design Research Association 2016 Place Research Award!* In 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 with built-in responses to the environment that have evolved over millennia. The book outlines four main principles---Edges Matter, the fact people are a thigmotactic or a 'wall-hugging' species; Patterns Matter, how we are visually-oriented; Shapes Carry Weight, how our preference for bilateral symmetrical forms is biological; and finally, Storytelling is Key, how our narrative proclivities, unique to our species, play a role in successful place-making. The book takes an inside-out approach to design, arguing that the more we understand human behavior, the better we can design for it. The text suggests new ways to analyze current designs before they are built, allowing the designer to anticipate a user's future experience. More than one hundred photographs and drawings illustrate its key concepts. Six exercises and additional case studies suggest particular topics - from the significance of face-processing in the human brain to our fascination with fractals - for further study.

Author : Birgit Cold
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 0754618560

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Aesthetics, Well-being and Health by Birgit Cold Pdf

In everyday life, most people do not reflect seriously on the impacts of architecture and environmental aesthetics on their well-being and health. This intriguing volume brings together professionals working in architecture, planning, urban design and social policy with academics from both humanities and social sciences to provide a broad-based and insightful discussion on how aesthetics affect us emotionally and physically. The essays help us understand our cultural and individual preferences related to the quality of the environment and challenge the common belief that environmental beauty is a matter of personal taste. A wide range of concepts are discussed such as place identity, multi-sensuous and emotional processes, geometrical order and controlled space, architectural plasticity, aesthetically real and virtual values, participative design processes, ethics in architecture, and beauty and happiness. The book highlights the importance for today's society to engage more in aesthetic ethics and to understand the significance of creating aesthetically pleasing environments.

Author : Claudia Basta,Stefano Moroni
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400752467

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Ethics, Design and Planning of the Built Environment by Claudia Basta,Stefano Moroni Pdf

The book proposes a set of original contributions in research areas shared by planning theory, architectural research, design and ethical inquiry. The contributors gathered in 2010 at the Ethics of the Built Environment seminar organized by the editors at Delft University of Technology. Both prominent and emerging scholars presented their researches in the areas of aesthetics, technological risks, planning theory and architecture. The scope of the seminar was highlighting shared lines of ethical inquiry among the themes discussed, in order to identify perspectives of innovative interdisciplinary research. After the seminar all seminar participants have elaborated their proposed contributions. Some of the most prominent international authors in the field were subsequently invited to join in with this inquiry. Claudia Basta teaches "Network Infrastructures and Mobility" at Wageningen University. Between 2009 and 2011 she worked as Coordinator of the 3TU Centre of Excellence for Ethics and Technology of Delft University, where she completed her post-doc research on the shared areas of investigation between risk theories, planning theories and ethical inquiry. Her main research interests concern the matter of assessing and governing technological risks in relation to sustainable land use planning. She wrote a number of journal articles and contributions to collective books on these themes. Stefano Moroni teaches “Land use ethics and the law” at Milan Politecnico. His main research interests concern planning theory and ethics. He is the author of a number of books and journal articles. Recent publications (as co-author): Contractual Communities in the Self-Organizing City (Springer 2012).

Author : Toby Israel
Publisher : Academy Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39076002564941

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Some Place Like Home by Toby Israel Pdf

Introduces the field of design psychology with interviews with Michael Graves, Andres Duany, and Charles Jencks to examine how places from the past contain seeds of future choices for home locations, dwellings and interior design.

Author : Sarah Williams Goldhagen
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780062199188

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Welcome to Your World by Sarah Williams Goldhagen Pdf

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 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 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. This will necessitate a vast amount of new construction—almost all in urban areas—that will dramatically transform our existing landscapes, infrastructure, and urban areas. Going forward, we must do everything we can to prevent the construction of exhausting, overstimulating environments and enervating, understimulating ones. 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. Fancy exteriors and dramatic forms are never enough, and may not even be necessary; authentic textures and surfaces, and careful, well-executed construction details are just as important. Erudite, wise, lucidly written, and beautifully illustrated with more than one hundred 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.