Wellness Architecture and Urban Design - Couverture souple

Tabb, Phillip James; Tatriele, Lahra

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1032752017 ISBN 13 : 9781032752013

Editeur : Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

Wellness is a contemporary concept with deep ancient roots promoting preventative and holistic activities, lifestyle choices, and salient architecture and urban design practices. Wellness Architecture and Urban Design presents definitions, an analysis of the wellness literature, and a brief history of the wellness movement. Specific planning and design strategies are presented citing examples worldwide and emphasizing the importance of wellness considerations at all scales of the built environment from rooms to cities. Both case studies offer fully integrated and comprehensive wellness design approaches creating resilient and life-enhancing wellness through each of the architecture and urban design scales. The book will be of interest to practitioners and students working in urban design, landscape architecture, architecture, planning, and affiliated fields.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Phillip James Tabb is Emeritus Professor of Architecture at Texas A&M University and was the Liz and Nelson Mitchell Professor of Residential Design. He served as Head of the Department from 2001-2005 and was Director of the School of Architecture and Construction Management at Washington State University from 1998-2001. He is author of eight book in the fields of architecture, planning, biophilic, and sacred architecture. He received his Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Cincinnati, Master of Architecture from the University of Colorado, and Ph.D. in the Energy and Environment Programme from the Architectural Association in London.

Lahra Tatriele is an international wellness executive leading corporate-level growth strategy, business model innovation, concept design and curation, and integrated wellness branding. In 2010, she led the launch of Fivelements Retreat Bali. She received a Bachelor of Science in International Marketing from the Stern School of Business at New York University and completed an executive course in Architectural Imagination from Harvard's Graduate School of Design. Lahra currently serves as Co-Founder & Chief Wellness Strategist of Alchemy Concepts, Chair of the Wellness Architecture and Design Initiative and member of the Mental Wellness Initiative of the Global Wellness Institute.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1032752017
• ISBN 13: 9781032752013
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 242
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Routledge; https://www.routledge-ny.com/; ; Stockst?dter Str. 20; Gro?ostheim; Bayern; Allemagne