Barbara Erwine, Creating Sensory Spaces. The Architecture of the Invisible
Routledge 2017 – 276 pages, 86 Color Illustrations
ISBN: 978-1138918764
Creating Sensory Spaces celebrates spaces enlivened with sensual richness and provides you with the knowledge and tools necessary to create them. Drawing on numerous built case studies in ten countries and illustrated with over 85 full color images, the book presents a new framework for the design of sensory spaces including light, color, temperature, smell, sound, and touch. Bridging across disciplines of architecture, engineering, phenomenology and perceptual psychology, this book informs the design of buildings and neighborhoods that reclaim the role of the body and all the senses in creating memorable experiences of place and belonging.
Table of Contents
Introduction.
1. The World is Flat2. Celebration of the Senses3. Light Space4. Somatic Space5. Thermal Space6. Acoustic Space7. Olfactory Space8. Multisensory Design9. Time and Movement: Rituals of Change10. A Sense of Place
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Barbara Erwine is an architectural design and research consultant and lecturer at the University of Washington. Drawing on her training in science and architecture, her work celebrates the integration of passive design with architectural place-making. She has facilitated integrated design processes for a wide range of projects, from commercial buildings to urban neighborhoods. An advocate for sustainability, she helped develop one of the first US cohousing communities, where she now resides.
