She also dismisses another misconception – that there is some emotive quality in the world that automatically triggers a response in us, regardless of cultural upbringing. Most of us would have thought these were built into our DNA, but that isn’t the case. She very eloquently dismantles the misconception that emotions are something we are born with. Lisa Feldman Barrett is one of the top neuroscientists around, and has written this very engaging book backed up by years of empirical investigation. I’m far more interested in how we construct our emotions around the built environment than which styles are thought to be good or bad.Īrchitects love to quote French philosophers and intellectual theories but are far less likely to genuinely look into the science of emotions. I’ve always found it confusing that, even though we know that these feelings are subjective, architects will formulate arguments about certain buildings being good or bad, quite often leading to a heated debate between the traditional and the modern. I wanted to understand why one person may feel something special about a certain place, but others may walk by and feel nothing, even when coming across a widely celebrated building. This arose from my interest in the relationship between emotions and the built environment. I read this book because I wanted to understand what scientists say about human emotions. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Pan Macmillan, 2018
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