Places of the soul : architecture and environmental design as healing art / Christopher Day.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Day, Christopher, 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Psychological aspects.

Architecture.

Architecture--Environmental aspects.

Physical Description:

xv, 294 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2014.

Summary:

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 Christopher Day classic text builds on more than 40 years of experience ecological design across a range of climates, cultures and budgets, and 25 years hands-on building. Treating buildings as environments intrinsic to their surroundings, the book explores consensus design, economic and social sustainability, and how a listening approach can grow architectural ideas organically from the interacting, sometimes conflicting, requirements of place, people and situation. This third edition, comprehensively revised to incorporate new knowledge and address new issues, continues Day's departure from orthodox contemporary architecture, offering eye-opening insights and practical design applications. These principles and guidelines will be of interest and value to architects, builders, planners, developers and homeowners alike. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Architecture: does it matter? 1

2 How environment affects us 9

3 Place: placemaking and place-generation 15

4 Space for living in: shape, form, space and life 25

5 Lines: material realities or bearers of energy? 45

6 Qualities and quantities 59

7 The senses: gateways to the world 67

8 Light: nutrition for body and soul 72

9 Spirit of place, of project, of buildings 81

10 Ensouling buildings 91

11 Conversation or conflict? 101

12 Architecture as art 111

13 Architecture with health-giving intent 117

14 Healing silence: the architecture of peace 125

15 Soul or survival? 137

16 Building for planetary health 149

17 Building for human health 162

18 Design as a listening process: co-creating places 172

19 Building as a health-giving process 188

20 Children and environment 200

21 Accessibility for all: compromise for the soul? 212

22 Urban life, urban needs 221

23 Development: continuity-destruction or place-improvement? 232

24 Urban problems: urban opportunities 240

25 Eco-cities: achievable or Utopian dream? 252

26 Building for tomorrow 260.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415702430

0415702437

OCLC:

852957427