CONTENTS

• Why we should be living in “living” houses
• What do light, color, gravity, and fractals have to do with our well-being?
  • Eight points of the biophilic effect
• What kind of design triggers healing?
• Modern architecture tells an incomplete story
• What do historic buildings say about our connection to the natural world?
• Why do we create ornament to mimic nature?
  • Cognitive rules for ornament
• Modernist minimalism and our relationship with our buildings
• The importance of listening to lessons from nature
• Why we hug the edge of open spaces
  • Patterns that determine path

AUTHOR

Nikos A. Salingaros, PhD, The University of Texas at San Antonio, Department of Mathematics

Introduction by Catherine O. Ryan, Terrapin Bright Green