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  • Cross-Modal Interior Architecture

    A Behavioural Neuroscience Framework for Spatial Design

    Edited by Anna Anzani, Nicola Bruno ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book addresses the widespread demand for an organism-centred approach to places that are consistent with psychological, emotional and social needs, based on a transdisciplinary confluence of behavioural neuroscience, interior architecture and spatial design. Ordinary perception is multisensory and based on automatic, spontaneous and often obligatory mental processes. If the design manages ... Read more

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  • The City of Care

    Strategies to Design Healthier Places

    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The book explores care as a transition strategy to a healthier and more sustainable world. After the lesson learned from the pandemic, health as a fundamental human right is increasingly related to a care component: caring for sick people, persons with disabilities, elders, migrants and refugees, women and children, caring for bodies, minds, cities and nature. Endorsing the care system as a female ... Read more

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  • Conscious Dwelling

    For Transdisciplinary Cityscapes

    Edited by Anna Anzani ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Through a transdisciplinary perspective, this book examines the complex urban dimension, in front of increasing density, soil consumption, abandoned places, and the recent pandemic which proved megacities particularly inadequate to provide healthy psychophysical conditions. Assuming bodily and emotional comfort as a reference horizon, it tends to inspire the design research overcoming a ... Read more

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  • Mind and Places

    A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Design of Contemporary City

    Edited by Anna Anzani ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book explores the contributions of psychological, neuroscientific and philosophical perspectives to the design of contemporary cities. Pursuing an innovative and multidisciplinary approach, it addresses the need to re-launch knowledge and creativity as major cultural and institutional bases of human communities. Dwelling is a form of knowledge and re-invention of reality that involves both ... Read more

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  • Introducing Architectural Theory

    Debating a Discipline

    This is the most accessible architectural theory book that exists. Korydon Smith presents each common architectural subject – such as tectonics, use, and site – as though it were a conversation across history between theorists by providing you with the original text, a reflective text, and a philosophical text. He also introduces each chapter by highlighting key ideas and asking you a set of ... Read more

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  • Loris Malaguzzi and the Schools of Reggio Emilia

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    Loris Malaguzzi was one of the most important figures in 20th century early childhood education, achieving world-wide recognition for his educational ideas and his role in the creation of municipal schools for young children in the Italian city of Reggio Emilia, the most successful example ever of progressive, democratic and public education.Despite Malaguzzi’s reputation, very little of what he ... Read more

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    Most of the people who work in the field attain an implicit knowledge of design languages through exposure to design discourse, that is to say, to the ecosystem comprised of products, companies, showrooms, trade shows, events, exhibitions, magazines, and blogs that deal with design. And just as there is no need to study grammar in order to speak effectively, so too can one learn to “speak” design ... Read more

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