Places of the Heart

we build to change perceptions, and to influence thoughts and feelings;

to the design of a building at an emotional level, and even though those feelings influence what we do when we are there, we most often don’t have the time or the inclination to dissect our daily responses to place to make sense of them.

I’m an experimental psychologist who studies the ways that buildings influence those who use them.

was too young to have any clear understanding of the gulf of time that separated us from the site’s creators, and my mind was uncluttered by the years of schooling and the accretion of complicated mental associations that when I was an adult would make it so much more difficult for me to be in the simple presence of a monument

My own belief is that the key to building better places at all scales is to begin by observing the intricate relationships between our lived experiences and the places that contain them—

A History of Domestic Spaces

Home, Witold Rybczynski

importance of comfort, a concept that was completely lacking in early domestic spaces.