HEALTHY ARCHITECTURE (IV). NEUROARCHITECTURE: THE COGNITIVE AND EMOTIONAL INFLUENCE OF SPACE
SEVILLE / 23 May 2022. In the previous post we talked about salutogenesis and stressed that, as opposed to an eminently technical approach focused only on pathogenic aspects of materials and constructions, it is also necessary to consider the assets that are...
HEALTHY ARCHITECTURE (III). SALUTOGENESIS, OR BUILDINGS AND CITIES AS ASSETS FOR HEALTH
SEVILLE / 31 March 2022. In the previous issue we saw how the last CIAMs, held at the end of the 1950s, marked a paradigm shift in the way of understanding the relationship between buildings and human beings. In opposition to the mass-man of the Modern...
HEALTHY ARCHITECTURE (II). FROM THE HYGIENIST MOVEMENTS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY TO THE POST-WAR CIAM
SEVILLE / 24 February 2022. FOLLOW THESE TIPS AND YOU WILL LIVE FOR MANY YEARS, says the French poster at the top of this second post on Healthy Architecture. We said in the previous post that the COVID-19 pandemic has served as a catalyst to put the...
HEALTHY ARCHITECTURE (I): TOWARDS A NEW PARADIGM IN BUILDING DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION
SEVILLE / 3 February 2022. Well-being and health are intimately linked to the way the human body and mind interact with the environment and how the environment influences the body. Today’s spaces must not only be sustainable, functional and aesthetically...