Humanise
A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World
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Thomas Heatherwick
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In this manifesto for change, one of the world's pre-eminent designers explores how buildings and cities around the world lost their soul - and what we can do about it.
Thomas Heatherwick shows how design has a profound effect on our mental and physical health, the climate, as well as the peace and cohesion of societies. He shows how a flawed idea of utility and 'efficiency' has engulfed our towns and cities and hardened into a form of bland minimalism. But it doesn't have to be this way: there are other ways to build - with the power to lift our spirits, engage and connect us.
Heatherwick draws on his own work, the ideas of other experts in the field, and recent advances in neuroscience and cognitive psychology to offer both a case against the inhumanity of modernist design and a rallying cry to everyone to imagine the world anew. Looking through his eyes, we take in places around the world, old and new, famous and obscure, that can sap the life out of us - or nourish our senses and our psyche.
Humanise is a tautly argued provocation and an urgent call-to-arms to make the world around us a far better place for everyone to live.
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"This book is a super accessible guide as to why we shouldn't put up with soulless buildings and how we might change that." (Grayson Perry)
"Humanise is a masterwork. It's quietly furious, impassioned, rigorous and forensic in all the right doses. It leaves me very hopeful indeed about how things could go from here." (Alain de Botton)
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- Gustavo Arguello
- 20-03-24
Really a movement to be part on!
Brilliant and well written book.Top 10 must read when you decided to be an Architect.
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- rosa levin
- 11-12-23
Intelligence, courage and purpose
I enjoyed the unfolding of the well-reasoned argument read by Heatherwick himself in his characterful voice. I felt the passion against our obsession with sanctifying ‘The Market’ which has resulted in (a lot of cases) bare minimum functional architecture.
Hopefully this book will ignite a movement of people celebrating the humanity in making beautiful and functional things.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-11-23
This book helped me FEEL hopeful and nurtured
When I think of creativity as ‘thinking outside the box’ Heatherwick’s work comes come to my mind. I now really admire his boldness in challenging the current practice in architecture and am hopeful towards this new movement!
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- m101
- 06-11-24
very slow to get going
I think about half the book was a run up to the meaty bit. Waaay to long a run up. also, this book will ruin the word boring for you.
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- ashiq s a
- 01-12-24
Wonderful reading by Thomas Heatherwick.
I loved the whole philosophy of boringness of buildings spoken so well by the author and am truly a fan of his work.
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