Constructing Health
How the built environment enhances your mind’s health
Author: Tye Farrow
Publisher: Aevo UTP
Year: 2024
Language: English
Hardback: 304 Pages
ISBN: 9781487557232
Farrow Partners bestselling book, Constructing Health: How the Built Environment Enhances Your Mind’s Health, explores how our mind and its various sensory systems interacts with our built environment to create the conditions of which we can thrive and prosper.
Written by Tye Farrow, Constructing Health explores recent discoveries in cognitive psychology (the science of the mind) and neuroscience (the science of the brain) to determine how we can form health-giving person-to-place relationships that are similar to healthy and meaningful person-to-person relationships.
Tye Farrow bridges the gap in knowledge between the therapeutic medical world, the design community, and public, to reveal how the intentional shaping of our environment can support our physical and neurological well-being. Acclaimed by both professional and public critics, the book has been described as “ a landmark work that will undoubtedly influence the future of architectural design.”
This richly illustrated book offers an engaging and accessible way to discover how we can construct health through specific, measurable design qualities to enhance human performance in our cities, our homes, and our places of learning and healing.
Global Praise for Constructing Health
“The science is clear: integrating neuroscience and architecture can help designers create spaces that optimize physical and neurological wellbeing. In Constructing Health, Tye Farrow deftly explores the transformative power of intentional design, showcasing actionable strategies to transform the places where we live, work, learn, and heal. He advocates for salutogenic design principles that prioritize generosity, vitality, and human connection -- qualities that are much needed in today's global society.
Susan Magsamen, Founder and Executive Director, International Arts + Mind Lab (IAM Lab), Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
“Tye Farrow’s book condenses an astonishing but also actual investigation of how architects should transform their scientific awareness to set up a better environment for humans. It is the best landing of salutogenic theory on the architectural world.”
Davide Ruzzon, Architect and Founder of NAAD Neuroscience Applied to Architectural Design, Iuav University of Venice, and TA tuning arch, Italy
“The twenty-first century is witnessing an enlightenment toward understanding the science of the brain, mind & body. Architect Tye Farrow has beautifully translated, and has put into practice, what will apply to design professionals who desire their aesthetic decisions to be grounded in evidence that the human experience in built spaces will be enriched.”
Frederick Marks, Visiting Scholar, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and Co-founder and Past-President, Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture
“Constructing Health is a breath of fresh air that beautifully presents clear and compelling ideas about the relationship of mind, body, spirit, placemaking and health. Tye Farrow’s projects express his architectural prodigious imagination and his long-standing exploration of curved, sustainable, and beautiful wood structures. Bravo!”
Bruce Kuwabara, Founding Partner, KPMB
“In a passionate celebration of how the designed environment provides a context and foundation for human health and wellbeing, this book underpins Tye Farrow’s place as one of the inspirational architects of modern times. Challenging us to think more deeply about our relationship with the built environment in this book, few architects have applied interdisciplinary thinking across the fields of design and health and at the intersection of art and science as powerfully as Tye Farrow.”
Marc Sansom, SALUS Global Knowledge Exchange
“Tye Farrow is a brilliant and accomplished architect who has added to his exciting built work with a delightful, richly illustrated book that asks important questions. Farrow challenges us to create a world of design that actively supports optimal health. He shows us how human neurological and therapeutic value can be created by deliberately enriched environments. Don’t miss this one!”
Kirk Hamilton, Professor Emeritus of Architecture, Texas A&M University
“The book beautifully illustrates Architect Tye Farrow's remarkable contributions to Salutogenic architecture, highlighting its vital role in advancing health and well-being. Farrow's pioneering efforts spanning several decades, tracing his evolution from hospital design in Canada to achieving global recognition in Salutogenic architecture. Farrow's impact is marked by widespread recognition and international acclaim, underscoring the significant influence he has exerted in the field. His multiple awards from the Academy further affirm his excellence standing within the architectural community.”
Alan Dilani, Founder, International Academy for Design and Health
“Here is an eloquent and powerful book that teaches us how we should view architecture: not by what it is, but by what it does. An acutely needed and beautiful game changer.”