Places of the Soul
Architecture and environmental design as a healing art
For Christopher Day, architecture isn't just about the appearance of buildings but how they're experienced as places to be in. Occupants' experience can differ radically from designers' intentions as their concerns and thinking differ. Additionally, multi-sensory ambience, spatial sequential experience and embodied spirit resonate in the human soul. Sustainable design means much more than energy-efficiency: if sustainable buildings don't also nourish the soul, occupant-building interaction will lack care and eco-technologies won't be used efficiently. This major revision of his classic text builds on more than forty years of experience ecolog…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-415-70243-0
- EAN: 9780415702430
- Produktnummer: 15430426
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 296 S.
- Masse: H23.1 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.7 cm 478 g
- Auflage: 3 New edition
- Abbildungen: 171 Line drawings, black and white; 149 Halftones, black and white
- Gewicht: 478
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
Über den Autor
Christopher Day is an eco-architect, self-builder and sculptor. He designs buildings in line with the ecological principles of his books and has won several awards, including a Prince of Wales award. A former visiting professor at Queen's University, Belfast, he has also designed, consulted, taught and lectured in over twenty countries across the world, from California to Siberia, Sweden to New Zealand.
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