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Humanise

By: Thomas Heatherwick
Narrated by: Thomas Heatherwick
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In this manifesto for change, one of the world's pre-eminent designers explores how buildings and cities around the world lost their soul - and what we can do about it.

Thomas Heatherwick shows how design has a profound effect on our mental and physical health, the climate, as well as the peace and cohesion of societies. He shows how a flawed idea of utility and 'efficiency' has engulfed our towns and cities and hardened into a form of bland minimalism. But it doesn't have to be this way: there are other ways to build - with the power to lift our spirits, engage and connect us.

Heatherwick draws on his own work, the ideas of other experts in the field, and recent advances in neuroscience and cognitive psychology to offer both a case against the inhumanity of modernist design and a rallying cry to everyone to imagine the world anew. Looking through his eyes, we take in places around the world, old and new, famous and obscure, that can sap the life out of us - or nourish our senses and our psyche.

Humanise is a tautly argued provocation and an urgent call-to-arms to make the world around us a far better place for everyone to live.

©2023 Thomas Heatherwick (P)2023 Penguin Audio
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Critic reviews

"This book is a super accessible guide as to why we shouldn't put up with soulless buildings and how we might change that." (Grayson Perry)

"Humanise is a masterwork. It's quietly furious, impassioned, rigorous and forensic in all the right doses. It leaves me very hopeful indeed about how things could go from here." (Alain de Botton)

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sumamente refrescante

excelente libro de arquitectura, grandes argumentos que hacer cuestionario el oficio y ver nuestras ciudades desde otro punto de vista

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the conflicting Ideas knowledge

the writer talks about architecture and brings ideas from history and still he know nothing morthan his white supremacist history naming historical locations according to his won white vision and altering history base on his own view.
he talked about historical building but lack the knowledge of their real historical names.

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