Architectural psychology

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The architectural psychology tried the effect of the built environment (interiors, buildings, open spaces, squares, etc.) to the people to examine his condition and behavior and also to formulate conclusions for the planning and design of environments.

Main topics and professional demarcation

On the one hand, architectural psychology deals with the interactions between humans and their built environment. It is therefore often viewed as a sub-area of environmental psychology (also: ecological psychology). However, architectural psychology focuses on the effect of buildings , indoor and outdoor spaces, on people in cognitive, emotional and social terms.

The criteria of architectural psychology overlap to a large extent with those of residential psychology . While the latter, the focus on the humane habitat and human housing needs sets, captured former, other topics such as: office buildings and working spaces , kindergartens and schools , sick - and hospitals , museums and exhibition spaces, offices and much more.

Practical relevance

Just like its sister discipline, residential psychology , architectural psychology is also characterized by a strong practical orientation and provides valuable scientific foundations for architecture and interior design : starting with the design of interiors including furniture and coloring, the conception of buildings including facades and outdoor areas to the planning of urban areas Rooms, places etc.

Interdisciplinarity

Another essential feature is the high degree of interdisciplinarity - not only within the psychological subjects (e.g. social psychology , developmental psychology , perceptual psychology , color psychology , cognitive psychology , etc.), but also with technical, planning subjects ( architecture , interior design , urban planning Etc.). Architectural psychology therefore forms an important link between human science (psychology, physiology, etc.) and the technical sciences.

history

Similar to environmental psychology , architectural psychology has a relatively short history and only developed gradually in the second half of the 20th century. The conference under the title "Architectural Psychology" at the Dalandhui University of Strathclyde in 1969 can be described as one of the hours of birth of architectural psychology. It was characterized by an interdisciplinary composition with experts from the fields of psychology, architecture, medicine, social sciences, etc. Further conferences followed at almost annual intervals (1969-1976) under the title "Architectural Psychology".

Eduard Geisler can be mentioned as a pioneer in this field among others for the German-speaking area, who in 1978 in his publication " Psychology for Architects " endeavors to prepare psychological topics for planners. From the more recent past it is above all Antje Flade with " Architecture - psychologically considered ", and Peter G. Richter among others with " Architectural Psychology " who give this subject fundamental impulses. One of the most important contemporary specialists is Rotraut Walden , who deals with special architectural psychological tasks such as schools and office buildings in her research and publications. or daycare centers. Andrea Petmecky again pays special attention to the environment of children in " Architecture of Developmental Environments ", while Paul Klaus-Dieter Bär in his " Architectural Psychology " increasingly focuses on practical application in advice and planning. Tanja Vollmer taught and researched in the field of healthcare buildings from 2016 to 2018 at the Technical University of Berlin. In the health sector, Roger S. Ulrich is a pioneer and internationally recognized expert who carried out pioneering studies as early as the 1980s and made numerous architectural psychological aspects public under the term "evidence based design" that have a positive effect on health and regeneration.

Literature (selection)

  • Paul Klaus-Dieter Bär: Architectural Psychology. Psychosocial aspects of housing. Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89806-756-0 .
  • Antje Flade: Architecture - viewed psychologically. Hans Huber Verlag, Bern 2008, ISBN 978-3-456-84612-5 .
  • Eduard Geisler: Psychology for Architects. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1978.
  • Robert Gutman (Ed.): People and Buildings. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey 2009 (1972)
  • Jürgen Hellbrück, Manfred Fischer: Environmental Psychology. Hogrefe Verlag for Psychology, Göttingen / Bern 1999, ISBN 3-8017-0621-4 .
  • Lenelies Kruse, Carl F. Graumann, Ernst D. Lantermann (eds.): Ecological psychology. Psychologie Verlags Union, Weinheim 1996, ISBN 3-8017-0621-4 .
  • ED Lantermann, V. Linneweber (ed.): Environmental psychology. Volume 1: Basics, paradigms and methods of environmental psychology . Hogrefe Verlag für Psychologie, Göttingen / Bern // Toronto / Seattle 2008, ISBN 978-3-8017-0595-4 .
  • ED Lantermann, V. Linneweber, E. Kals (ed.): Environmental psychology. Volume 2: Specific environments and environmentally-related action . Hogrefe Verlag for Psychology, Göttingen / Bern / Toronto / Seattle 2010, ISBN 978-3-8017-0596-1 .
  • Andrea Petmecky: Architecture of Development Environments: Environmental Appropriation and Perception in Kindergarten Tectum Verlag, Marburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8288-9636-9 .
  • Peter G. Richter (Ed.): Architectural Psychology. Pabst Science Publishers, Lengenrich / Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89967-119-8 .
  • Rotraut Walden , Simone Kosica (Hrsg.): Architectural psychology for day care centers. Pabst Science Publishers, Lengerich 2011, ISBN 978-3-89967-643-3 .
  • Rotraut Walden: Architectural Psychology: School, College and Office Buildings of the Future. Pabst Science Publishers, Lengerich 2008, ISBN 978-3-89967-426-2 .
  • David V. Canter (Ed.): Architectural Psychology - Theory, Laboratory Studies, Fieldwork - 9 Research Reports. Bertelsmann, 1973.
  • David V. Canter / Terrence Lee (Eds.): Psychology and the Built Environment . The Architectural Press Ltd., Tonbridge / Kent 1974
  • Albert Mehrabian: Everyday spaces: How the environment determines our behavior . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 1987
  • Tanja C. Vollmer, Gemma Koppen: Architectural perception and stress experience of the seriously and chronically ill. In: A. Abel, B. Rudolf (Ed.): ArchitekturWahrhaben . Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2017
  • DAK Kopec. Environmental Psychology for Design . New York: Fairchild Publications. 2006
  • Andreas Jüttemann (ed.): Urban psychology: manual as a planning basis . Pabst Science Publishers, Lengerich 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David V. Canter (Ed.): Architectural Psychology: proceedings of the conference held at Dalandhui University of Strathclyde 28 February-2 March 1969. Royal Institute of British Architects
  2. ↑ Digital library ( English ) ISAPS. Retrieved April 5, 2019.
  3. ^ Eduard Geisler: Psychology for Architects. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Darmstadt 1978.
  4. ↑ Antje Flade: Architecture - viewed psychologically. Publisher Hans Huber, Bern 2008.
  5. ↑ Peter G. Richter (Ed.): Architectural Psychology. Pabst Science Publishers, Lengenrich / Berlin 2004.
  6. ↑ Rotraud Walden: Architectural Psychology : School, College and Office Buildings of the Future. Pabst Science Publishers, Lengerich 2008.
  7. ↑ Rotraud Walden, Simone Kosica (ed.): Architectural psychology for day care centers. Pabst Science Publishers, Lengerich 2011.
  8. ↑ Andrea Petmecky: Architecture of Development Environments: Environmental Appropriation and Perception in Kindergarten. Tectum Verlag, Marburg 2008.
  9. ^ Paul Klaus-Dieter Bär: Architectural Psychology, Psychosocial Aspects of Living. Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2008.
  10. ↑ Healing architecture: giving space to illness. Retrieved April 26, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Architectural Psychology . Retrieved April 26, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Roger S. Ulrich. View Through a Window May Influence Recovery from Surgery . Journal: Science, Vol. 224, 1984
  13. ↑ Roger S. Ulrich. Effects of Interior Design on Wellness: Theory and Recent Scientific Research . Journal of Health Care Interior Design. January 2001