Human Spaces: Life-Enhancing Designs for Healing, Working, and Living

Human Spaces: Life-Enhancing Designs for Healing, Working, and Living dramatically illustrates an array of designed environments intended to create a better quality of life.

--Features a range of projects from an urban hospital's healing garden to a major manufacturing and distribution center.

--Includes some of the newest work being built according to criteria that consider the human implications of design.

--Presents life-enhancing designs in a variety of project-health care, corporate, industrial, educational-as well as residential.

The quality of human perception and experience is what guides these designs. Human Spaces is a handsome volume that will inspire design professionals, clients, and the general public alike.

Barbara Crisp is a partner in the architecture firm of Max Underwood + Barbara Crisp, based in Tempe, Arizona. She holds a Bachelor of English, Bachelor of Design Science, and Master of Architecture degrees and is faculty associate in the School of Architecture at Arizona State University. The focus of her professional design work addresses sensory experience and perception and their relationship to the psychological and physiological aspects of creating environments that support and sustain well-being. Barbara lectures and collaborates in workshops on life-enhancing environments and healing garden design.