A New Look at Humanism: In Architecture Landscapes and Urban Design (ORO EDITIONS)

About this book

This book is about enlarging the ways designers think about design doing so by learning more about the maturing sciences of human lifeevolution ecology and the neurosciencesthe sciences that explore how you or I actually experience the places being built for us and why we respond the ways we do. The new insights are as revolutionary in their way as the re-discovery of ancient Greece and Rome by humanists in the Renaissance. That was a time of dazzling creativity with new ways of thinking about human nature. Were facing that kind of opportunity again. The book starts with our Origins as we evolved immersed in the natural world. Then our actual experience is explored in The mind that encounters architecture and The body that responds. And then the languages of humanism applies these ideas to design and the role of aesthetic experience.