Inquiry by design : environment/behavior/neuroscience in architecture, interiors, landscape, and planning
Title:
Inquiry by design : environment/behavior/neuroscience in architecture, interiors, landscape, and planning
ISBN:
9780393731842
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Edition:
Revised edition.
Publication Information New:
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, c2006.
Physical Description:
400 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Design : images, presentations, and tests -- Research : concepts, hypotheses, and tests -- Research and design cooperation -- Side effects of cooperation -- Research methodology : approaches, designs, and settings -- Research quality -- The brain's environment system -- Observing physical traces -- Observing environmental behavior -- Focused interviews -- Standardized questionnaires -- Asking questions : topics and format -- Archives -- Environment/behavior/neuroscience.
Abstract:
This update of a classic text folds the new field of neuroscience for design into well-established environment-behavior (E-B) methods and approaches. Illustrated evidence-based building and open space case studies demonstrate E-B’s continuing design impact. Fundamental theory and practical research methods are presented for planning, programming, designing, and evaluating the effects of physical environments in use. Part I describes how designers and researchers employ a similar creative process that promotes collaboration and yields greater design creativity and research effectiveness. Part II focuses on research methods to understand how buildings and spaces work: observing behavior and the physical environment, asking questions in interviews and surveys, and employing archival records that include data and physical plans
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Language:
English