2007 - Issue 3

Architecture can encourage group innovation, but it does not dictate innovative thoughts. Allen and Henn detail the relationship between organizational factors, space, and innovation.

The space syntax community continues to actively research human interaction by studying how people move and behave in buildings, neighborhoods, and cities.

A mounting body of healthcare design research demonstrates that crowding, privacy, noise, and windows affording daylight and views can have a substantial impact on patient recovery and safety. Though such research demonstrates promising advances, it can overlook design’s impact on patients’ psychosocial needs.

The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) has studied the design review process and prepared a comprehensive overview of successful design reviews of urban plans and building facades.

Open-plan workplaces are not popular with the people who use them, but thoughtful design can help.

Several recent articles have addressed the relationship between home-based work and the experience of being home.

American, English, Korean, and Japanese have different responses to color palettes representing combinations of several colors that might be used together in an interior space.

Mentally fatigued individuals have different preferences for relaxation.

Urban places can sometimes be noisy, dirty, or unpleasant, but what makes them annoying?

Trains, like planes and buses, transport people in sometimes less than optimal environments.