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Designing With the Language of Nature

Posted by: Jonathan Nettler

13 January 2012 - 5:00am

Writing for the NY Times Sunday Review, Sarah Williams Goldhagen opines on the attraction of architects and urban designers to the design language of trees and other embodied metaphors.

According to the author, "A revolutiom in cognitive neuroscience is changing the kinds of experiments that scientists conduct, the kinds of questions economists ask and, increasingly, the ways that architects, landscape architects and urban designers shape our built environment."

Full Story: Seeing the Building for the Trees
Source: The New York Times, January 7, 2012
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Language of City - Studying urban public spaces

Submitted by anoop jha on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 21:40.

Every city has stories to tell, it communicates through its built environment and the mass interaction of its inhabitants, creating a rhythmic noise of city.

http://bit.ly/sanyjl : Tender and holistic side of Urban design and Planning

Anoop Jha
http://planningurbanoregional.blogspot.com/

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