Last fall I was living in England for the project architecture as part of a press trip in search of some ultra-modern vacation homes. While happily snapping photos of the contemporary buildings, a woman said to me: "Make sure people in photos, architecture is about people." The Jane Wernick, a project of structural engineers, who later told me how architecture affects our minds about a whole book was edited.
Building happiness: architecture you smile, architects, artists, policy advisors, engineers and other big thinkers to discuss the way we design our buildings and environment are directly affected by how happy we may feel is a collection of essays?
So, we can build a happy?
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Need for physical comfort - light, sound, and temperature as well as the need for culture and community can also promote happiness architecture were noted as important elements.
We think and separated to get out of control, was a recurring theme among the essays, and Wernick notes as "the best places are those which we think we are in control, and that's good for social interaction permit and are passions for places with a chance of nature. "
In addition, Wernick Buildings and architecture said to those with a penchant for describing places that make them happy. Glasgow Museums journalist Kirsty Wark was a happy place, sculptor Antony Gormley as his own studio in my happy place is chosen, and the architect Richard Rogers in London River Cafe restaurants pleased to find space in the courtyard. (Rogers says that three things in life that bring happiness - food, sex, and architecture.)
And Wernick is a happy place? This includes the design, Kew, through the deciduous trees 18 meters above the ground provides a long walk Xstrata Treetop Walkway had a hand in the Royal Botanic Gardens.
Building a happy happy directly affects whether the architecture is no hard and fast conclusions about the draw, but you smile and the "mood for thought" the design, planning, and our favorite spaces to build can.
The philosophy of my writing, and all art, architecture echoes believe Gaboury about: "the essence of architecture is space structured to humans, but the ultimate goal, like any other art form, symbolic, metaphoric or spiritual, with the difference of architecture that. The practical art links. "
I believe writing is powerful, too, can link the practical and artistic.
