Aesthetics, Well-being and Health
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Aesthetics, Well-being and Health

Essays within Architecture and Environmental Aesthetics

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

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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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781040150207
Topic
Architecture
Subtopic
Aesthetics in Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. New Series Introduction to RLE: Ethnoscapes
  6. Original Title Page
  7. Original Copyright Page
  8. Table of Contents
  9. Preface
  10. Introduction
  11. Why it is important to discuss this subject
  12. Aesthetics, Well-being and Health
  13. The Essays
  14. Health and Beauty: Enclosure and Structure
  15. Beauty
  16. The Aesthetics of Place
  17. Creating Aesthetic Built Environments through the User Participation Process
  18. What Happens if Zeleste Becomes an Architect?
  19. The Architectural Psychology Box of Infinite Knowledge
  20. Housing, Health and Aesthetics: Reconnecting the Senses
  21. “Chuck out the Chintz”? Some Observations on Aesthetics, Well-being and Health
  22. Reflections on Concepts of Aesthetics, Health and Well-being
  23. Aesthetics in the Built Environment and its Influence on the User
  24. The Mind of the Environment
  25. Aesthetics, Order and Discipline
  26. I Live in a Beautiful House, on a Beautiful Street in Beautiful Montreal: Notes on Well-being and the Experience of Place Aesthetics
  27. Environmental Aesthetics and Well-being: Implications for a Digital World
  28. Reasonable Persons and Their Aesthetic Preferences
  29. Conversations on Aesthetics
  30. Buildings Imagined as Bodies
  31. Presentation of the Contributors
  32. Appendix 1
  33. Appendix 2

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