Inquiry by design : environment/behavior/neuroscience in architecture, interiors, landscape, and planning / John Zeisel ; foreword by John P. Eberhard.

By:

Zeisel, John

Material type: Text

TextNew York : W.W. Norton & Company, c2006Edition: Rev. edDescription: 400 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0393731847 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

720.19 22 Z.J.I

LOC classification:

BF353 .Z44 2006

Online resources:

Table of contents only

Contents:

Design : images, presentations, and tests -- Research : concepts, hypotheses, and tests -- Research and design cooperation -- Side effects of cooperation -- Research methodology : approaches, designs, and settings -- Research quality -- The brain's environment system -- Observing physical traces -- Observing environmental behavior -- Focused interviews -- Standardized questionnaires -- Asking questions : topics and format -- Archives -- Environment/behavior/neuroscience.

Summary: 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 physical environments in use. Part I describes how designers and researchers employ a similar creative process that promotes collaboration and yields greater design creativity and research effectiveness. Part II focuses on research methods to understand how buildings and spaces work: observing behavior and the physical environment, asking questions in interviews and surveys, and employing archival records that include data and physical plans. 50 illustrations

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Main library B9	Faculty of Engineering & Technology (General)	720.19 Z.J.I (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00010764

Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-392) and index.

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 physical environments in use. Part I describes how designers and researchers employ a similar creative process that promotes collaboration and yields greater design creativity and research effectiveness. Part II focuses on research methods to understand how buildings and spaces work: observing behavior and the physical environment, asking questions in interviews and surveys, and employing archival records that include data and physical plans. 50 illustrations

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