Blueprints for the Soul: Why we need emotion in architecture

You know that something is wrong, even if you can't quite put your finger on it. This book tells you why, and how to solve it.

There is a lack of beauty and emotion in our built environment. The visual patterns in nature that instinctively satisfy us are being obliterated from our surroundings, which have become progressively monolithic and featureless. We don't question why nature matters. We implicitly understand that nature feeds us metaphorically as well as literally. Nowhere was this mo...