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Spontaneous Cities: Lessons to Improve Planning for Housing
(Land;10(5), 5/19/2021)
The world can learn two key lessons from spontaneous settlements: (i) design so as to adapt to human biology; and (ii) design to save energy. Timeless processes of urban growth and sustainability have forced societies to ...
The Importance of Domestic Space in the Times of COVID-19
(10/19/2021)
This essay discusses a deep malaise of contemporary architecture, made more obvious by experiencing COVID-19 lockdowns for several months. Evidence-based arguments urge society to improve human health and well-being by ...
Visual Attention Software: A New Tool for Understanding the “Subliminal” Experience of the Built Environment
(2021-07-04)
Eye-tracking technology is a biometric tool that has found many commercial and research applications. The recent advent of affordable wearable sensors has considerably expanded the range of these possibilities to fields ...
What Happens in Your Brain When You Walk Down the Street? Implications of Architectural Proportions, Biophilia, and Fractal Geometry for Urban Science
(2022-01-07)
This article reviews current research in visual urban perception. The temporal sequence
of the first few milliseconds of visual stimulus processing sheds light on the historically ambiguous
topic of aesthetic experience. ...
Biometric Pilot-Studies Reveal the Arrangement and Shape of Windows on a Traditional Façade to be Implicitly "Engaging", Whereas Contemporary Façades Are Not
(5/18/2020)
The human brain evolved to implicitly approach or avoid objects in its surroundings. Requisite for survival, this behavior happens without conscious awareness or control, honed over 60 million years of primate evolution. ...
A Multimodal Appraisal of Zaha Hadid's Glasgow Riverside Museum—Criticism, Performance Evaluation, and Habitability
(2023-01-09)
High-profile projects promoted by governments, local municipalities, and the media do not always meet program requirements or user expectations. The Riverside Museum in Glasgow by Zaha Hadid Architects, which has generated ...