This update of a classic text folds the new field of neuroscience for design into well-established environment-behavior (E-B) methods and approaches. Illustrated evidence-based building and open space case studies demonstrate E-B’s continuing design impact. Fundamental theory and practical research methods are presented for planning, programming, designing, and evaluating the effects of physi…
The author, a designer and psychologist, shows that the design process involves a variety of different thinking modes. He argues that design skills can be acquired, practised and improved in the same manner as learning a musical instrument.