Godina izdanja: 2023
ISBN: 9780241389799
Oblast: Arhitektura
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

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Thomas Heatherwick
Humanise - A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World

Penguin ltd
2023
496str

Summary
From one of the world`s most imaginative designers comes a story about humanity told through the lens of our buildings.

`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

*****

Our world is losing its humanity.

Too many developers care more about their shareholders than society. Too many politicians care more about power than the people who vote for them. And too many cities feel soulless and depressing, with buildings designed for business, not for us.

So where do we find hope?

Thomas Heatherwick has an alternative. By changing the world around us, we can improve our health, restore our happiness, and save our planet. The time has come to put human emotion back at the heart of the design process. Drawing on thirty years of making bold, beautiful buildings, neuroscience and cognitive psychology, Heatherwick brings together vivid stories and hundreds of beautiful images into a visual masterpiece. Humanise will inspire us to do nothing less than remake our world.

*****

`Thomas Heatherwick brings a velvet sledgehammer to the way we think about buildings and how they change our lives . . . I want to live in the kind of city Heatherwick imagines!` SIMON SINEK

`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

Reviews
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. The Age of Boring might just have ended right now
Alain de Botton
Thomas Heatherwick echoes many things I find myself saying as I travel round the country. How the hell did that monstrosity get built? Why is this place so depressing? Why is so much of the built environment so boring? This book will wind up quite a few architects, planners and developers who labour under the delusion that they are the adults in the room. Good. These people need to develop some compassion for the people who have to live with their joyless, bland, unlovable creations. 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
Thomas Heatherwick brings a velvet sledgehammer to the way we think about buildings and how they change our lives. In simple, elegant words, he demands that we put people first. Not developers, politicians or architects. I want to live in the kind of city Heatherwick imagines! Vive la revolution!
Simon Sinek, Optimist and New York Times-bestselling author of Start with Why and The Infinite Game
This book will help frustrated ordinary people and communities see what is possible
David Byrne
A revelation. Humanise offers an accessible, compelling and entirely unique perspective on the world in which we live. Heatherwick’s storytelling ability shines through on each and every page - pushing boundaries and challenging perspectives. At a time where thoughtful and constructive ideas and solutions, that put the public at the centre of decision-making, are sought more than ever - this book provides a spark to ignite conversations across our city, country and the globe on how to build a better world for everyone
Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London
Heatherwick makes the case for human buildings that nurture our health and happiness. Out with the `blandemic` of boring buildings and let`s get back to interestingness. He calls for us all to engage with our built environment and so we should
Dame Sally Davies
Architecture has the ability to uplift and inspire, support connection, and fuel invention - bringing life and vitality to our cities by making them better, more beautiful, more sustainable places to live and work. Thomas Heatherwick`s new book offers us a powerful prescription for buildings that put the public first and help set the course for a brighter future for humanity
Mike Bloomberg, entrepreneur, philanthropist, former Mayor of New York City
In a social and economic tour de force, Thomas Heatherwick explodes the waste of bad design: the neighbourhoods destroyed, the wellbeing lost, the carbon burned. And then he pivots to the potential of bending the straight line into a curve, the building into the feeling, and the narrowly rational into the fully human
Mark Carney
Humanise ignites the urgent public conversation I`ve been calling for for years
Sir Terry Farrell CBE, architect and urban designer
A book that will change how you see the world
Simon Jenkins