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Designing for human behavior: architecture and the behavioral sciences / edited by Jon Lang [and others].
Fine Arts Library - Core Reading Collection NA2750 .D42
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LIBRA NA2750 .D42
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LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating NA2750 .D47 1974
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Community development series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architectural design.
- Architecture--Psychological aspects.
- Architecture.
- Human behavior.
- human behavior.
- Architecture as Topic.
- Behavior.
- Environment Design.
- Medical Subjects:
- Architecture as Topic.
- Behavior.
- Environment Design.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 353 pages illustrations 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stroudsburg, Pa., Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross [1974]
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Emerging issues in architecture. Professional and client: an emerging collaborative relationship / Howard E. Mitchell ; The architectural belief system and social behavior / Alan Lipman ; The social order of environmental design / Constance Perin ; A model of the designing process / Jon Lang and Charles Burnette ; An early summary of "The timeless way of building" / Christopher Alexander ; The human being and the institutional building / M. Powell Lawton ; Environmental psychology and the design professions / Harold M. Proshansky.
- pt. 2. Fundamental processes of environmental behavior. Theories of perception and "formal" design / Jon Lang ; The Gestalt psychology of expression in architecture / David Levi ; Psychological factors in the use of light and lighting in buildings / D. Geoffrey Hayward ; The house as symbol of the self / Clare Cooper ; Predicting the meaning of architecture / Robert G. Hershberger ; Architecture in the head: cognitive mapping / David Stea ; The mental image and design / Charles Burnette ; Behavior settings as data-generating units for the environmental planner and architect / William F. LeCompte ; The physical setting as a factor in group function and process / Maxine Wolfe and Harold Proshansky ; Looking back at personal space / Robert Sommer ; Meeting man's basic spatial needs in artificial environments / Edward T. Hall.
- pt. 3. Obtaining and using behavioral information. Surveys, questionnaires, and interviews / Ronald J. Goodrich ; Measuring attributes of the visual environment / Henry Sanoff ; Unobtrusive measures: their nature and utility for architects / Arthur H. Patterson ; The evaluation of environments: behavioral observations in an undersea habitat / Robert Heimreich ; Experimental methods in environmental design research / Robert B. Bechtel ; Fundamental values in planning with the nonpaying client / John Zeisel ; Behavioral analysis and environmental programming for offices / Walter H. Moleski ; Evaluating buildings on a performance basis / Michael Brill ; Building evaluation, user satisfaction, and design / Robert Gutman and Barbara Westergaard
- pt. 4. Conclusion. Arm folding and architecture: the allied arts / Stuart W. Rose.
- pt. 5. Bibliography. Designing for human behavior: a reference bibliography / Jon Lang, Walter H. Moleski, and David Vachon.
- Notes:
- Current Copyright Fee: GBP17.50 0.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-350).
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Charles Moleski.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Designing for human behavior: architecture and the behavioral sciences.
- ISBN:
- 0879330546
- 9780879330545
- 0879332174
- 9780879332174
- 0470515317
- 9780470515310
- OCLC:
- 799631
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