Design Psychology: Using Design Psychology to Create Ideal Places - Softcover

Israel, Toby

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470849509 ISBN 13: 9780470849507

Verlag: Wiley & Sons, 2003

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To a greater degree than has been acknowledged, personal history plays an enormous role in the type of aesthetic choices that underly home design and selection. An individual's "environmental autobiography," a lifetime of environmental experiences, undoubtedly informs an aesthetic outlook. Concepts, such as these, are discussed in Design Psychology, a book that offers an entirely new approach to architectural design, bridging the world of aesthetics and psychology. The book focuses on the environmental stories of such innovators as Michael Graves, Charles Jencks, and Andres Duany, examining the impress of personal history on some of their well-known public works, brilliantly illustrating how inextricably life and work are bound.

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TOBY F ISRAEL, PhD, is an environmental/design psychologist with over 25 years of experience in design and psychology, the arts, and education. She has served as the Visual Arts Coordinator for the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, as an environmental consultant in the USA and UK and as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Lincoln. Now living in the USA, she acts as an advisor/market researcher for educational institutions as well as for the homebuilding and design industry. She speaks both nationally and internationally, spreading the word about Design Psychology.

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Defined as "the practice of architecture, planning and interior design in which psychology is the principal design tool", the purpose of Design Psychology is to create environments that reflect the individual or group as well as encourage positive change.

Some Place Like Home introduces the new field of Design Psychology, using in-depth interviews with design superstars Michael Graves, Andres Duany and Charles Jencks to examine how places from the past contain the seeds of future choices for home locations, dwellings and interior design.

The Design Psychology Exercises used to delve into the environmental autobiographies of Graves, Jencks and Duany can in turn be used by readers, themselves, to explore their own environmental treasure chests.

The last portion of the book focuses on the practical application of Design Psychology by showing examples of residential, corporate and institutional projects created via the Design Psychology process. A Design Psychology Toolbox, provided at the end of the book, gives readers hands-on programming exercises they can use to explore and design from their most fulfilling inner experiences.

This is a groundbreaking, must read book for anyone seeking to create an ideal environment that feels "Some Place Like Home".

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0470849509
• ISBN 13: 9780470849507
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
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