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Welcome to Your World

How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives

By: Sarah Williams Goldhagen

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Welcome to Your World

How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives

By: Sarah Williams Goldhagen

One of the nation’s chief architecture critics reveals how the environments we build profoundly shape our feelings, memories, and well-being, and argues that we must harness this knowledge to construct a world better suited to human experience Taking us on a fascinating journey through some of the world’s best and worst landscapes, buildings, and cityscapes, Sarah Williams Goldhagen draws from recent research in cognitive neuroscience and psychology to demonstrate how people’s experiences of the places they build are central to their well-being, their physical health, their communal and social lives, and even their very sense of themselves. From this foundation, Goldhagen presents a powerful case that societies must use this knowledge to rethink what and how they build: the world needs better-designed, healthier environments that address the complex range of human individual and social needs. By 2050 America’s population is projected to increase by nearly seventy million people. This will necessitate a vast amount of new construction—almost all in urban areas—that will dramatically transform our existing landscapes, infrastructure, and urban areas. Going forward, we must do everything we can to prevent the construction of exhausting, overstimulating environments and enervating, understimulating ones. Buildings, landscapes, and cities must both contain and spark associations of natural light, greenery, and other ways of being in landscapes that humans have evolved to need and expect. Fancy exteriors and dramatic forms are never enough, and may not even be necessary; authentic textures and surfaces, and careful, well-executed construction details are just as important. Erudite, wise, lucidly written, and beautifully illustrated with more than one hundred color photographs, Welcome to Your World is a vital, eye-opening guide to the spaces we inhabit, physically and mentally, and a clarion call to design for human experience.

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235

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HarperCollins

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0062199188

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9780062199188

Louis Kahn's Situated Modernism

By: Sarah Williams Goldhagen,Sarah Goldhagen Williams,Louis I. Kahn

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Louis Kahn's Situated Modernism

By: Sarah Williams Goldhagen,Sarah Goldhagen Williams,Louis I. Kahn

She demonstrates instead that Kahn's architecture is grounded in his deeply held modernist political, social, and artistic ideals, which guided him as he sought to rework modernism into a socially transformative architecture appropriate for the postwar world.".

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Yale University Press

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0300077866

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9780300077865

Louis Kahn's Situated Modernism

By: Sarah Williams Goldhagen,Sarah Goldhagen Williams,Louis I. Kahn

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Projecting America, 1958

Film and Cultural Diplomacy at the Brussels World's Fair

By: Sarah Nilsen

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Projecting America, 1958

Film and Cultural Diplomacy at the Brussels World's Fair

By: Sarah Nilsen

The Brussels World's Fair was perhaps the most important propaganda event to be staged for European allies in the Eisenhower years; his administration viewed culture as a weapon in the battle against communism. This book examines the critical role of film in the information war waged against the Soviets in the American pavilion at the fair. The administration sought to create a visual rendition of America that was arresting and inspirational; film was used as a method of political persuasion.

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211

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McFarland

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078648537X

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9780786485376

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Welcome to Your World

Welcome to Your World

Louis Kahn's Situated Modernism

Louis Kahn's Situated Modernism

Louis Kahn's Situated Modernism

Louis Kahn's Situated Modernism

Projecting America, 1958

Projecting America, 1958

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