Building from the urban mine with Felix Heisel
Could viewing buildings through the lens of whole-life strategies make circular construction more mainstream? Director of the Cornell Circular Construction Lab Felix Heisel believes so.
Tag: healthy design
Are designers partners in global health?
How much does the design of interior environments impact human health? Dr. Esther Sternberg and Dr. Gautam Gulati believe it has a profound impact.
Architecting wellbeing: How designers impact human health
Can the impact of a workplace on employees’ health, happiness and productivity be measured and then changed for the better? That’s exactly what Dr. Esther Sternberg answers in this interview
Architecting wellbeing: How designers impact human health
Can the impact of a workplace on employees’ health, happiness and productivity be measured and then changed for the better? That’s exactly what Dr. Esther Sternberg answers in this interview.
Designing to Mitigate Chronic Disease and Promote Wellness
How Dr. Gautam Gulati (Dr. G.) redesigned his home to help mitigate his father’s rapidly progressive Alzheimer’s and in the process, discovered a wider need to first address wellness in the built environment.
Preserving modernism, nature and human joy
Modernist architecture may be among the more divisive, debated and controversial architectural styles throughout history. But love it or hate it, few can contest its contributions to fundamentally shifting the way humans engage with the built environment. Modernist architects believed in designing spaces that blurred the lines between indoors and outdoors, tapped into primal instincts and desires and eased the stresses of modern life––in a sense, providing architectural therapy.
