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Thomas Heatherwick - Humanise (2nd Hand Softback)
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Synopsis
Subtitled : A Makers Guide to Building Our World.
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.
Details
- Format : Thick 2nd Hand Softback with French Fold Sleeves
- Condition : Very Good (Almost As New)
- Category : Non-Fiction - Architecture, Design & Engineering
- Published : 2023 (Penguin)
- ISBN : 9780241389799
- SKU : B003284
- PPC : SP600gm
- RRP : £15.99
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
Filled with B&W Photography.
External 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' - Alain DeBotton.
"Humanise by Thomas Heatherwick is hands down the coolest book I've ever read! It's not just interesting; it's a game-changer. This book came to the rescue when I had to write a history essay. The way Heatherwick spins ideas is mind-blowing and made my essay pop with a fresh perspective. It's not just a book; it's your secret weapon for both leisure and academia. Seriously, get ready to be hooked!" - Amazon Review.
'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.
"A social and economic tour de force." - Mark Carney.
"Inspiring, enlightening & provocative." - Noreena Hertz.
The Author
Thomas Heatherwick is one of the world's most prolific designers, whose varied work over two decades is characterised by its originality, inventiveness and humanity. Defying conventional classifications, Heatherwick founded his studio in 1994 to bring together architecture, urban planning, product design and interiors into a single creative workspace. Led by human experience rather than any fixed dogma, the studio creates emotionally compelling places and objects with the smallest possible carbon footprint.
From their base in London, Heatherwick's team is currently working on over thirty projects in ten countries, including Toranomon-Azabudai, a six-hectare mixed-use development in the centre of Tokyo, the new headquarters for Google in London and Airo, an electric car that cleans the air as it drives. The studio has also recently completed Bay View, Google's first ground-up campus and Little Island, a park and performance space on the Hudson River in New York as well as the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town; and Coal Drops Yard, a major new retail district in King's Cross, London.