Christopher DayPlaces of the Soul
Architecture and environmental design as a healing art
Christopher Day is an eco-architect, self-builder and sculptor. He designs buildings in line with the ecological principles of his books and has won several awards, including a Prince of Wales award. A former visiting professor at Queen's University, Belfast, he has also designed, consulted, taught and lectured in over twenty countries across the world, from California to Siberia, Sweden to New Zealand.
Foreword by HRH Prince Charles Preface 2002: New Millenium: New Issues
Preface 2012: Soul in our eco-crisis age 1. Architecture: Does It Matter?
2. How environment affects us 3. Place: placemaking and place-generation 4.
Space for Living In: shape, form, space and life 5. Lines: material
realities or bearers of energy? 6. Qualities and Quantities 7. The senses:
gateways to the world 8. Light: nourishment for body and soul 9. Spirit of
place, of project, of buildings 10. Ensouling Buildings 11. Conversation or
Conflict? 12. Architecture as Art 13. Architecture With Health-Giving
Intent 14. Healing Silence: the Architecture of Peace 15. Soul or survival?
16. Building for Planetary Health 17. Building for Human Health 18. Design
as a Listening Process: Co-creating Places 19. Building as a Health-Giving
Process 20. Children and Environment 21. Accessibility for All: Compromise
for Soul? 22. Urban life, Urban needs 23. Development:
continuity-destruction or place-improvement? 24. Urban problems: urban
opportunities 25. Eco-cities: achievable or utopian dream? 26. Building for
Tomorrow Appendix 1. Lazure: inexpensive technique Appendix 2. Target
pricing examples Appendix 3. Hand-finished Plastering List of photographs
Bibliography Index
