Aesthetics, Well-being and Health
Essays within Architecture and Environmental Aesthetics
- 338 pages
- English
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Aesthetics, Well-being and Health
Essays within Architecture and Environmental Aesthetics
About this book
In everyday life, most people do not reflect seriously on the impacts of architecture and environmental aesthetics on their well-being and health. Originally published in 2001 as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction, Aesthetics, Well-being and Health: Essays within Architecture and Environmental Aesthetics, is an intriguing volume bringing together professionals working in architecture, planning, urban design and social policy with academics from both humanities and social sciences to provide a broad-based and insightful discussion on how aesthetics affect us emotionally and physically. The essays help us understand our cultural and individual preferences related to the quality of the environment and challenge the common belief that environmental beauty is a matter of personal taste. A wide range of concepts are discussed such as place identity, multi-sensuous and emotional processes, geometrical order and controlled space, architectural plasticity, aesthetically real and virtual values, participative design processes, ethics in architecture, and beauty and happiness. The book highlights the importance for today's society to engage more in aesthetic ethics and to understand the significance of creating aesthetically pleasing environments.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- New Series Introduction to RLE: Ethnoscapes
- Original Title Page
- Original Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Why it is important to discuss this subject
- Aesthetics, Well-being and Health
- The Essays
- Health and Beauty: Enclosure and Structure
- Beauty
- The Aesthetics of Place
- Creating Aesthetic Built Environments through the User Participation Process
- What Happens if Zeleste Becomes an Architect?
- The Architectural Psychology Box of Infinite Knowledge
- Housing, Health and Aesthetics: Reconnecting the Senses
- “Chuck out the Chintz”? Some Observations on Aesthetics, Well-being and Health
- Reflections on Concepts of Aesthetics, Health and Well-being
- Aesthetics in the Built Environment and its Influence on the User
- The Mind of the Environment
- Aesthetics, Order and Discipline
- I Live in a Beautiful House, on a Beautiful Street in Beautiful Montreal: Notes on Well-being and the Experience of Place Aesthetics
- Environmental Aesthetics and Well-being: Implications for a Digital World
- Reasonable Persons and Their Aesthetic Preferences
- Conversations on Aesthetics
- Buildings Imagined as Bodies
- Presentation of the Contributors
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2