Importance of Emotional Response in Shelter Design

Importance of Emotional Response in Shelter Design

One of the physiological needs that humans must have met, according to Maslow is the need for shelter. In this article from Architectural Digest Brendan Gill says that “…the most important aspect of shelter-the emotional response it induces in us…is nearly always absent from an architect’s work”. While this may be true of some architects I do not think that it can be said about everyone.
Mr. Gill said that Wright had mastered the concept of shelter; his reasons for believing this were that Wright designed his homes with consideration to what way the windows and doors face, as well as the manner in which he designed the family room and where it was placed in the home. While some architects do not take these things into consideration it is my experience that most of them do. They make sure the house faces in a direction t...