Menu
The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings Shape Our Behavior, Health, and Happiness
Bottom of the pile
15
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
13/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Emily Anthes
Publisher:
Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date:
June 23, 2020
Science journalist Emily Anthes takes us on an adventure into the buildings in which we spend our days, exploring the profound, and sometimes unexpected, ways that they shape our lives.
What The Reviewers Say
...an engaging survey of the science of buildings and a reported account of the quest to improve life by deliberate design.
I read it, in a perverse spirit, entirely outside, on a sunny patch of grass, without a single person within seeing or hearing distance.
Great Indoors contains no slogs about how inclusionary zoning codes support affordable housing design. Instead, readers learn, for example, how dirt, water, and barbed wire are ingredients for easily constructed dome homes that have provided emergency housing for refugees and could better serve people in poverty.
Though some readers may be overwhelmed by the amount of information presented, the majority of it is fascinating and well worth pondering.
