Styles
- Pleistocene, 2.6M-11,700 BC
- Prehistoric, 11,6000 BC-3,500 BC
- Temples, Shrines, Pyramids, 3,050 BC-900 BC
- Classical, 850 BC – 476 AD
- Byzantine, 450-1000
- Romanesque, 800-1200
- Gothic, 1150-1500
- Renaissance, 1400-1600
- Baroque, 1630-1750
- Rococo, 1650-1790
- Neoclassicism, 1730-1925
- Art Nouveau, 1890-1914
- Beaux Arts, 1895-1925
- Neo-Gothic, 1800-1920
- Art Deco, 1920-1940
- Modernism, 1900-present
Vocabulary
- aesthetics
- autonomic nervous system
- Bauhaus
- beauty
- biological responses to design
- biophilic design
- building
- divergent taste
- evidence-based design
- eye tracking
- figural primitive
- fractals
- hate a place
- homeostasis
- hominess
- human centered design
- I don’t like it
- idiosyncratic
- love a place
- neuroscience of architecture
- Panopticon
- parasympathetic
- person-centered design
- perspective distortion
- pre-attentive processing
- proportion
- prospect landscape
- quality of life measures
- self assessment
- spatial cognition
- street trees
- sympathetic
- three-by-three pattern
Source Citation
Built Beautiful: An Architecture & Neuroscience Love Story with Narration by Martha Stewart, 2020.