The Human Architecture Of Feeling

ISBN: 9786256125933 — 2025 — 1. Print Natural Sciences Architecture

The Human Architecture of Feeling offers a pioneering inquiry into space as more than an assemblage of form, light, and geometry. Rather, it conceptualizes the built environment as a dynamic field of emotional, sensory, and existential engagement. Dr. Mahsa HAKKI and Dr. Hüseyin ZÜLFİKAR systematically examine the latent strata of architectural experience, elucidating how spatial conditions influence cognitive processes, corporeal perception, affective states, and the formation of memory. In doing so, the authors position architecture as an active agent that participates in shaping human emotional life. Departing from conventional visual-centric and function-oriented analyses, the book frames space as a multisensory continuum structured through variations of illumination, acoustic texture, material tactility, thermal gradients, and temporal atmosphere. Each chapter synthesizes perspectives from neuroscience, phenomenology, environmental psychology, and contemporary design theory, demonstrating how spatial configurations modulate mood, behavior, and identity. Through this interdisciplinary lens, the work argues for a more comprehensive understanding of inhabitation—one in which humans both produce and are produced by the environments they occupy. The Human Architecture of Feeling provides architects, designers, scholars, and advanced students with a rigorous conceptual framework for examining the emotional and experiential dimensions of architecture. By foregrounding feeling as a fundamental component of spatial cognition and design intention, the book advocates for architectural practices that transcend mere visuality or utility, advancing instead a model of built space that is cognitively resonant, experientially meaningful, and deeply felt.