Aesthetics, Well-being and Health: Essays within Architecture and Environmental Aesthetics

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Birgit Cold

Aesthetics, Well-being and Health

Essays within Architecture and Environmental Aesthetics

Birgit Cold

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Routledge
07 November 2024

Theory of architecture; Environmentally-friendly architecture & design; City & town planning - architectural aspects; Philosophy: aesthetics; The environment

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Ethnoscapes

In everyday life, most people do not reflect seriously on the impacts of architecture and environmental aesthetics on their well-being and health. Originally published in 2001 as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction, Aesthetics, Well-being and Health: Essays within Architecture and Environmental Aesthetics, is an intriguing volume bringing together professionals working in architecture, planning, urban design and social policy with academics from both humanities and social sciences to provide a broad-based and insightful discussion on how aesthetics affect us emotionally and physically. The essays help us understand our cultural and individual preferences related to the quality of the environment and challenge the common belief that environmental beauty is a matter of personal taste. A wide range of concepts are discussed such as place identity, multi-sensuous and emotional processes, geometrical order and controlled space, architectural plasticity, aesthetically real and virtual values, participative design processes, ethics in architecture, and beauty and happiness. The book highlights the importance for today's society to engage more in aesthetic ethics and to understand the significance of creating aesthetically pleasing environments.

Edited by: Birgit Cold
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 784g
ISBN: 9781032865775
ISBN 10: 1032865776
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Ethnoscapes
Pages: 334
Publication Date: 07 November 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Adult education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Birgit Cold (1936-2022) was born in Denmark. She graduated as an architect at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen in 1961. At the time of original publication, she had an architectural practice with social housing as its main field. She was also Professor of Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Fine Arts at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim.