Shinberg has done something truly impressive: He has created a practical framework for architectural thinking and design, grounded in the latest research on human perception and cognition. His ideas and insights offer a fresh perspective that have helped me clarify many aspects of my own approach to design.
--Stefan Behling, Architect, Senior Executive Partner, Head of Studio, Foster+Partners, London

This book is a must-read for architects and designers at any stage of their career. His inspiring and practical narrative makes even the most complex concepts accessible. Along the way, he offers aspiring and experienced professionals a fresh perspective to reignite their passion for architecture.
--Andrea de Paiva, Architect, Urban Planner, and Author, Director of NeuroAU at the University of Brasilia

Milton Shinberg is at the vanguard of architects convinced that the design of buildings for people to flourish should incorporate a deep understanding of human psychology and neuroscience. A very clearly written book, rich with reflections from the science of human emotions, embodiment, and aesthetics, People-Centered Architecture will greatly enhance architectural thinking, education, and practice.
--Anjan Chatterjee, MD, FAAN, Professor of Neurology, Psychology, and Architecture, University of Pennsylvania

A veteran architect's pragmatic guide to re-energizing design thinking, architectural practice and architectural education, with pivotal insights from the human sciences and wisdom harvested from non-architects.

People-Centered Architecture: Design Practice Education is a unique and probing exploration designed to help architects better serve everyone who uses what architects design. In this one-of-a-kind book, architect and educator Milton Shinberg presents game-changing approaches to enhance, reorient, and re-energize design thinking.

Shinberg draws from decades of dialogue with architects, designers, clients, artists, scientists, teachers, and his own students. His prompts and provocations, written in a clear and accessible narrative style, are organized to help architects, who are humanists, come to know much more about humans. Wise design becomes easier.

In one concise volume, People-Centered Architecture: Design Practice Education delivers a vibrant framework for architectural practice, for students and teachers of architecture, and for clients and stakeholders. Through this book, each will see their project partners more clearly, more empathetically, and in ways that foster richer, better brainstorming and more productive collaboration. The "coalition of the curious," people intrigued by architecture and architects, will get a peak behind the curtain.

A wise architect's guide for re-energizing architectural design thinking, capturing and applying discoveries from the human sciences and insights from non-architects, to transform architectural design, practice, and education.

People-Centered Architecture: Design Practice and Education is a unique exploration of concrete ways a deeper understanding of people helps and encourages architects to better serve everyone who use what they design. In this one-of-a-kind volume, veteran architect and educator Milton Shinberg presents game-changing approaches for enhancing and re-orienting architecture.

With a clear and accessible narrative style, Shinberg draws from decades of dialogue with architects, designers, clients, artists, scientists, teachers, and his students, to provide concepts and strategies for making design more robust and more resonant for clients and users, and much more rewarding for the design team. Shinberg's provocative ideas help architects, who are humanists, know much more about humans.

Exploring architecture through the lens of cognitive sciences and non-architects to promote more humane design, People-Centered Architecture:

• Explores ways architecture can resonate deeply with the people who use what architects create and those who decide what gets built.
• Highlights ground-breaking research in the human sciences that can be translated into common-sense and elegant architectural thinking.
• Investigates and unpacks how architectural intuitions and conventions can be expanded on and leveraged to breathe new life into design.
• Creates a scaffold and language for examining how we experience architecture and ways to reframe design.

People-Centered Architecture: Design Practice and Education is a must-have resource for professional architects looking for client-focused design strategies, students and teachers of architectural theory and practice, along with clients and stakeholders. Through the book, each will see their project partners more clearly, more empathically, and in ways that foster better brainstorming and collaboration.