Architecture Is a Verb

<p><em>Architecture is a Verb</em> outlines an approach that shifts the fundamental premises of architectural design and practice in several important ways. First it acknowledges the centrality of the human organism as an active participant interdependent in its environment. Second it understands human action in terms of radical embodiment--grounding the range of human activities traditionally attributed to mind and cognition: imagining thinking remembering--in the body. Third it asks what a building <i>does</i>--that is extends the performative functional interpretation of design to interrogate how buildings move and in turn move us how they shape thought and action. Finally it is committed to articulating concrete situations by developing a taxonomy of human/building interactions.</p><p>Written in engaging prose for students of architecture interiors and urban design as well as practicing professionals Sarah Robinson offers richly illustrated practical examples for a new generation of designers.</p>