Binding: Paperback
Description: An Architectural Record Notable Book A fascinating thought - provoking journey into our built environment Modern humans are an indoor species. We spend 90 percent of our time inside shuttling between homes and offices schools and stores restaurants and gyms. And yet in many ways the indoor world remains unexplored territory. For all the time we spend inside buildings we rarely stop to consider: How do these spaces affect our mental and physical well - being? Our thoughts feelings and behaviors? Our productivity performance and relationships? In this wide - ranging character - driven book science journalist Emily Anthes takes us on an adventure into the buildings in which we spend our days exploring the profound and sometimes unexpected ways that they shape our lives. Drawing on cutting - edge research she probes the pain - killing power of a well - placed window and examines how the right office layout can expand our social networks. She investigates how room temperature regulates our cognitive performance how the microbes hiding in our homes influence our immune systems and how cafeteria design affects what and how much we eat. Along the way Anthes takes readers into an operating room designed to minimize medical errors a school designed to boost students physical fitness and a prison designed to support inmates psychological needs. And she previews the homes of the future from the high - tech houses that could monitor our health to the 3 D - printed structures that might allow us to live on the Moon. The Great Indoors provides a fresh perspective on our most familiar surroundings and a new understanding of the power of architecture and design. It's an argument for thoughtful interventions into the built environment and a story about how to build a better world one room at a time.
Title: The Great Indoors The Surprising Science Of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior Health And Happiness
Author(s): Anthes Emily
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250798817
Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/1/2021
Category: Biology, Life Sciences