Tuning Architecture with Humans: Neuroscience Applied to Architectural Design

Human behavior shaped by nature informs architecture, revealing how built environments influence cognition and well-being.

Through thousands of years of evolution, features of the natural environment helped to mold human behavior. As social beings, early humans also found resonance with each other in relation to their surroundings, and even developed emotional templates for certain situations, such as climbing a hill. These in turn lead to gestures and spoken language. Neuroscience has shed ...