Experience this groundbreaking new film as it moves you with the power of quiet elegance.
by Architects Don H. Ruggles, Melissa Mabe, and Team
Screening at the Philadelphia Film Festival May 7th to 15th, 2021!*
with narration by Martha Stewart
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“Neuroscience gives architects a new lens through which to consider the built environment’s influence on health and wellness.”
From Me:
I say that Beauty inspires, and is also one of those primary requirements for a healthy life in support of both the personal and cultural and global architecture of our well-being.
See the Trailer on Vimeo
Showing at the PIFF, the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival.*
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*Do note that as I navigated the PIFF site and then tracked through to their Facebook site, I have not yet been able to find the 2021 Event Schedule much less this wonderful film offering of:
Built Beautiful, An Architecture & Neuroscience Love Story
Don h. Ruggles, Melissa Mabe
with narration by Martha Stewart
I will update this post and then also post it on SandboxPsyche.com once I have located easy to navigate links so you can experience this film online as the PIFF buildings are closed. Wonderfully ironic, huh? Architecture, online. So elegantly modern, quiet elegance, really. Big Abrazos nods In silence to that.
http://www.philadelphiaindependentfilmfestival.com/schedule/
Jordan Hoggard
Timothy Price
May 10, 2021 at 4:15 pm
Architecture has major implications on our health, both physically and mentally. One of the specializations of the company I work for is facility programming and post occupancy evaluation. We don’t do a lot of POE because people don’t really want to know how badly their precious architectural designs function. I can walk into most buildings and tell if they have been programmed for their intended use. Unfortunately, a lot of architects tend to be more interested in design elements and there egos than making functional spaces that work well for the inhabitants.
Jordan Hoggard
May 10, 2021 at 4:29 pm
Yes, you are full-on preaching to my choir on that. Though, with Don Ruggles and Melissa Mabe, this is nowhere near that. This is the poetry of visceral beauty in built form so necessary, like visual breath, for the health of the Architecture of Our Well-Being.
I’m not going to associate this post with those architects. No need for me to poison the beauty so to speak.
Thanks for your survey of what’s wrong with Architecture and Contracting, and I appreciate that you do what you do. It’s unfortunate that architects in general don’t want tO learn from their mistakes to be Architects. As Nietzsche said, “If you are not making mistakes, you’re not making anything.” To which I don;t believe in mistakes. I call them OFLs — Opportunities For Learning. Don’t waste Trouble, engage and enact with your OFLs, and make diamonds and sapphires, and rubies out of misfortune.