494 Pages
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Routledge
494 Pages
by
Routledge
492 Pages
by
Routledge
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There is at the present time a continuing interest in relating the behavioral sciences to design disciplines. Sociologists and social psychologists have been added to faculties of architecture schools, where they off er seminars and participate as programming specialists and design critics in studio courses. Behavioral scientists in many European countries have collaborated with architects and... Read more
One: Behavioral Constraints on Building Design; 1: The Aesthetics of Function; 2: Physiology and Anatomy of Urination; Design Considerations for Urination; 3: Cultural Variability in Physical Standards; 4: Invasions of Personal Space; 5: Territoriality: A Neglected Sociological Dimension; 6: The Physical Environment: A Problem for a Psychology of Stimulation; Two: Spatial Organization and Social Interaction; 7: The Psycho-Social Influence of Building Environment: Sociometric Findings in Large and Small Office Spaces; 8: Architecture and Group Membership; 9: Silent Assumptions in Social Communication; 10: The Social Psychology of Privacy; 11: Social Theory in Architectural Design; Three: Environmental Influences on Health and Well-Being; 12: The Housing Environment and Family Life; 13: Medical Consequences of Environmental Home Noises; 14: Effects of Esthetic Surroundings: I. Initial Short-Term Effects of Three Esthetic Conditions upon Perceiving “Energy” and “Well-Being” in Faces 1; Effects of Esthetic Surroundings: II. Prolonged and Repeated Experience in a “Beautiful” and an “Ugly” Room 7; 15: Grieving for a Lost Home; 16: Health Consequences of Population Density and Crowding; Four: The Social Meaning of Architecture; 17: Images of Urban Areas: Their Structure and Psychological Foundations; 18: Furniture Arrangement as a Symbol of Judicial Roles; 19: Fear and the House-as-Haven in the Lower Class; 20: Pecuniary Canons of Taste; 21: Place, Symbol, and Utilitarian Function in War Memorials; Five: The Application of Behavioral Science to Design; 22: The Questions Architects Ask 1; 23: The Room, A Student’s Personal Environment; 24: Old People’s Flatlets at Stevenage; 25: Typology and Design Method; 26: The City as a Mechanism for Sustaining Human Contact
Biography
Robert Gutman
