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Places of the Soul - Architecture and environmental design as a healing art (Hardcover, 3rd edition)
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Places of the Soul - Architecture and environmental design as a healing art (Hardcover, 3rd edition)
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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
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.
Reviews of the first edition ... one of the seminal architecture
books of recent times Professor Tom Wooley, Architects Journal The
'bible' of many architects and those interested in architecture.
Centre for Alternative Technology ... an inspiration to all those
who care about the influence of the environment on Man's health and
well-being. Barrie May, The Scientific and Medical Network At last
an architect has written a sensitive and caring book on the effects
of buildings on all our lives. Here's Health This gentle book
offers a route out of the nightmare of so much callous modern
construction. I was inspired. Colin Amery, The Financial Times
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