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English
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The Achitecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations.One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs, buildings, and streets that surround us. And yet a concern for architecture is too often described as frivolous,...
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Publisher
Taunton Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Brings the core design principles of The not so big house to life with footage from Not So Big homes around the country. Shows how to transform one's house, condo, or apartment into a beautiful, comfortable home, emphasizing quality over quantity and a high level of personal detail.
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"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...
14) The future of the past: a conservation ethic for architecture, urbanism, and historic preservation
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
15) The great indoors: the surprising science of how buildings shape our behavior, health, and happiness
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Modern humans are an indoor species. We spend 90 percent of our time inside, shuttling between homes and offices, schools and stores, restaurants and gyms. And yet, in many ways, the indoor world remains unexplored territory. For all the time we spend inside buildings, we rarely stop to consider: How do these spaces affect our mental and physical well-being? Our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors? Our productivity, performance, and relationships? In...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"The rooms we live in are always more than just four walls. As we decorate these spaces and fill them with objects and friends, they shape our lives and become the backdrop to our sense of self. One day, the houses will be gone, but even then, traces of the stories and the memories they contained will remain. In this dazzling work of imaginative re-construction, Edward Hollis takes us to the sites of five great spaces now lost to history and pieces...
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Princeton Architectural Press
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
"Ordinary. Banal. Quotidian. These words are rarely used to praise architecture, but in fact they represent the interests of a growing number of architects looking to escape the ever-quickening cycles of consumption and fashion that often reduce architecture to a stylish fad. Architecture of the Everyday is a plea for building that is emphatically unmonumental and antiheroic, an architecture rooted in the commonplace and the routines of daily life."...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Strayed Homes explores the blurring of public and private space. But whereas most writing about the public/private focusses on urban space, Strayed Homes focusses on the domestic - exploring those overlooked, everyday places where private and intimate activities take place in public. With four chapters set in four small, liminal spaces: the launderette, the greasy spoon, the fire escape, and the sleeper train - the book is part architectural history,...
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Publisher
Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In an era of brash, expensive, provocative new buildings, a prominent critic argues that emotions{u2014}such as hope, power, sex, and our changing relationship to the idea of home{u2014}are the most powerful force behind architecture, yesterday and (especially) today. We are living in the most dramatic period in architectural history in more than half a century: a time when cityscapes are being redrawn on a yearly basis, architects are testing the...
