 | Architecture is a Verb Subjects: Behavioral Sciences; Bioscience; Built Environment; Neuroscience; Psychological Science; Architecture; Planning; Environmental Psychology; Architectural Design Drawing and Presentation; Architectural History; Interior Design; Structure Materials and Detailing; Sustainable Architecture; Theory of Architecture; Urban Design; Architecture is a Verb outlines an approach that shifts the fundamental premises of architectural design and practice in several important ways. First, it acknowledges the centrality of the human organism as an active participant interdependent in its environment. Second, it understands human action in terms of radical embodiment--grounding the range of human activities traditionally attributed to mind and cognition: imagining, thinking, remembering--in the body. Third, it asks what a building does --that is, extends the performative functional interpretation of design to interrogate how buildings move and in turn move us, how they shape thought and action. Finally, it is committed to articulating concrete situations by developing a taxonomy of human/building interactions. Written in engaging prose for students of architecture, interiors and urban design, as well as practicing professionals, Sarah Robinson offers richly illustrated practical examples for a new generation of designers. Sarah Robinson is an architect practising in San Francisco and Pavia, Italy. She holds degrees in philosophy and architecture, and was the founding chair of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture Board of Trustees. Her previous books--Mind in Architecture: Embodiment, Neuroscience and the Future of Design with Juhani Pallasmaa (2015) and Nesting: Body, Dwelling, Mind (2011)--have been among the first to explore the connections between the cognitive sciences and architecture. She co-founded and edits the journal Intertwining, is an adjunct professor at Aalborg University, Denmark and teaches at NAAD / IUAV University of Venice. |
