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

    • Title:Places of the soul : architecture and environmental design as healing art / Christopher Day.
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    • Author/Creator:Day, Christopher, 1942- author.
    • Published/Created:Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2014.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Architecture--Psychological aspects.
      Architecture--Environmental aspects.
    • Medical Subjects: Architecture.
    • Edition:Third edition.
    • Description:xv, 294 pages ; 24 cm
    • 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 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."--Publisher's website.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780415702430 (pb : alk. paper)
      0415702437 (pb : alk. paper)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Architecture: does it matter?
      2. How environment affects us
      3. Place: placemaking and place-generation
      4. Space for living in: shape, form, space and life
      5. Lines: material realities or bearers of energy?
      6. Qualities and quantities
      7. senses: gateways to the world
      8. Light: nutrition for body and soul
      9. Spirit of place, of project, of buildings
      10. Ensouling buildings
      11. Conversation or conflict?
      12. Architecture as art
      13. Architecture with health-giving intent
      14. Healing silence: the architecture of peace
      15. Soul or survival?
      16. Building for planetary health
      17. Building for human health
      18. Design as a listening process: co-creating places
      19. Building as a health-giving process
      20. Children and environment
      21. Accessibility for all: compromise for the soul?
      22. Urban life, urban needs
      23. Development: continuity-destruction or place-improvement?
      24. Urban problems: urban opportunities
      25. Eco-cities: achievable or utopian dream?
      26. Building for tomorrow.
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