Some Place Like Home: Using Design Psychology to Create the Ideal Places. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.Some Place Like Home: Using Design Psychology to Create the Ideal Places

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.

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.