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Book Reviews

Botany for Designers: A Practical Guide for Landscape Architects and Other Professionals

This guide will be useful to architects and interior designers who are interested in considering how landscape architecture can support their objectives for spaces.

Kimberly Turner. 2011. W.W. Norton: New York.

Healing at the Speed of Sound

This book covers the psychological implications of sound and focuses on using music to achieve particular objectives. 

Don Campbell and Alex Doman. 2011. Hudson Street Press: New York

Sustainable Buildings in Practice: What the Users Think

The design community has been looking for a text detailing space users’ responses to sustainable building practices—and here it is. 

George Baird. 2010. Routledge: New York.

Social Design in Museums: The Psychology of Visitor Studies

This book is stunningly comprehensive and should be read by everyone involved with museums, zoos and similar venues.

Social Design in Museums: The Psychology of Visitor Studies by Stephen Bitgood, with contributions from others. Museums Etc., Edinburgh, 2011.

The Nature Principle

This book makes a compelling case that people should recognize how nature enhances well-being.

Richard Louv. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2011.

Visual Marketing: From Attention to Action

This book is a comprehensive collection of essays related to the psychology underlying visual experiences.

Michel Wedel and Rik Pieters, Editors. 2008. New York: Psychology Press

Cities for People

Cities for People can provide urban planners with information they need to improve cities around the world.

Jan Gehl. 2010. Washington, DC: Island Press

Office Code: Building Connections Between Cultures and Workplace Design

This is a very readable and amply illustrated guide to workspace design in Europe.

Steelcase Workspace Futures Europe. 2009. . Gesellschaft fur Knowhow-Transfer in Architektur und Bauwesen: Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany.

How to Design a Chair

This book explores the social and physical roles of chairs in our lives. Important design attributes of chairs are covered in detail, and an historical retrospective of chair design is included.

Elizabeth Wilhide. 2010. Conran Octopus Ltd. and The Design Museum: London

Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities

This is an intellectual history of twentieth century urban planning, where the central theme of the book is the interplay between design intentions and market forces.

Witold Rybczynski. 2010. Scribner: New York.