Biophilia And Healing Environments Healthy Principles For Designing The Built World 1st Edition Nikos A Salingaros by Nikos A. Salingaros instant download after payment.

Our biology should dictate the design of the physical settings we inhabit.

As human beings, we need to connect with living structures in our

environment. Designers thus face the task of better incorporating healing

strategies into their work, using factors that contribute to the biophilic

effect. 17th, 18th, 19th, and some 20th century architecture show the

healing traits of biophilia. After that, architects ignored complex human

responses to the built environment in their enthusiasm for the supposed

mechanical efficiencies of the industrial approach to placemaking. Design

that uses biophilia considers the inclusive, “bottom-up” processes needed

to sustain our health. When ornament is coherent with the rest of a structure,

it helps connect people to their environment, and creates a positive, healing

atmosphere. Biophilia shows how our evolutionary heritage makes us

experience buildings viscerally, and not as intellectualized abstractions.

This thinking juxtaposes the focus on innovative form for its own sake with

biophilic design.