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Sarah Williams Goldhagen has taken a big swing. Her new MORE INTERVIEWS
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book, Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Type EV | MDT-tex
Brasil Arquitetura Reveals
Shapes Our Lives, is nothing less than a meticulously
How Building Recovery is
constructed argument for completely rethinking our way
About Meeting the Real
of looking at architecture. A longtime critic for The New
Demands of Society
Republic and a former lecturer at the Harvard Graduate
School of Design, Goldhagen has taken a deep dive into
Tatiana Bilbao:
the rapidly advancing field of cognitive science, in an “Architecture Should
attempt to link it to a new human-centered approach to Benefit Every Single
the built world. The book is both an examination of the Human Being on This
science behind cognition (and its relevance to Planet”
architecture), and a polemic against the stultifying status
Benjamín Romano: "I
quo. Recently I talked to the author, who was busy
Focus on Improving the
preparing for a year-long trip around the world, about the
Building"
book, the science, and the state of architectural
education.
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cognition. If we stopped to focus on them, we could skin | Rieder Smart
become more aware of them. A good deal of Elements
cognition—some experts put it as high as 90 percent—is
nonconscious. So, if you’re not aware that something is
affecting you, then society’s failure to accord built
environmental design the immense value that it deserves
makes some sort of perverse sense. As it is now, there’s About Contact Submit Advertise
this mass of buildings of which we’re only dimly aware,
and then there’s the occasional piece of architecture,
which is essentially a luxury good purchased by elite
clients. But what we now know about cognition and
human experience demonstrates that this cannot stand as
a paradigm. There’s no such thing as a “neutral”
environment: your built environment is either helping
you, or it’s hurting you.
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MCP: You cite a lot of studies in the book. But the science
and research around the built environment that I’ve come
across is pretty thin. Where did you find, what I’m
guessing, is better science?
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