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Emotional Awareness and the Physical Environment: contributions from NeuroArchitecture

By Andréa de Paiva Emotional awareness is the ability to identify the emotions we experience. Emotional intelligence, on its turn, is the...

Neurodiversity and Accessibility: insights from NeuroArchitecture

By Andréa de Paiva & Márcia Galvão (@arquiautismo) In the context of architecture and urbanism, discussions about accessibility of spaces...

How long do we stay in the same space and how does it affect us? NeuroArchitecture Insights

By Andréa de Paiva How long will users spend on the projects we create? Customers may spend a few minutes in a store space; or students...

NeuroArchitecture and Spaces with a Focus on Creativity

By Andréa de Paiva To what extent can the environment where we are influence our way of thinking? Neuroscience has shown us that in...

ANFA 2020 | An approach to categorization of effects of architecture on the brain

By Andréa de Paiva How can the spaces we create affect people who occupy them? Questions such as this have been driving architects,...

NeuroArchitecture and Perception: creating more complete experiences for environments

By Andréa de Paiva This article is inspired by the work we presented at The Science of Consciousness Conference, organized by the...

Spaces for Children: what NeuroArchitecture can teach us

By Andréa de Paiva Have you ever stopped to think about the effects that the physical environment can have on us will not necessarily be...

Conceptualizing Einfühlung's Theory

Invited authors: Lorí Crízel, Caroline Ogura e Maurício Dallastra Since our study is focused on NeuroArchitecture, we can say that we...

Teaching Environments and the Pandemic: reflections from NeuroArchitecture

Part I: the body By Andréa de Paiva Have you attended any online course during the pandemic? How was your experience? With social...

The Future of Offices: NeuroArchitecture's insights for post-pandemic times

By Andréa de Paiva Companies and employees had to quickly adapt to the new scenario due to the pandemic and all the contention politics....

Epigenetics and NeuroArchitecture: until what level can the environment affect us?

By Andréa de Paiva Did you know that the environment can affect your organism not only in an anatomical or functional level, but also at...

NeuroArchitecture in Times of Lockdown

By Andréa de Paiva ** this article inspired BandNews' report of 04/21/2020. The video is available at the end of the article. The recent...

NeuroArchitecture: limits and possibilities

By Andréa de Paiva Over the last years, discussions about NeuroArchitecture and all other subjects encompassed by this interdisciplinary...

NeuroArchitecture and Empathy: fuel to creativity

By Andréa de Paiva When a new client comes to your office, what do you do to get to know him better? How do you find out about his...

Unconscious Bias: where are they?

by Andréa de Paiva This article was inspired on the discussion panel about the theme from the First National Forum of Audiovisual Female...

What NeuroUrbanism Teaches us About our Cities

By Andréa de Paiva How stressed have you felt lately? How many times, when walking on a busy road, have you felt lonely? Or how many...

The Eyes of The Body: perception, sensoriality and neuroarchitecture

By Andréa de Paiva Have you ever thought how would the world be without the sense of vision? How would people enjoy watching a dance...

What Disney teaches us about NeuroArchitecture

By Andréa de Paiva Disney is one of the most successful companies in the world. Since 1955, when Disneyland was inaugurated in...

Color Effects: insights from neuroarchitecture

By Andréa de Paiva What is the color of the walls in your house? Or of your couch? What about your company's logo? Most of the times we...

NeuroArchitecture and the Role of Emotions

By Andréa de Paiva NeuroArchitecture has been proving that the buildings and cities we design affect people’s brain and behavior in a...

Spatial Navigation: NeuroArchitecture and the Brain's GPS

By Andréa de Paiva Who has never felt lost in the hallways of a hospital or a school? Or in the streets of a major city when they didn’t...

Emotions & Senses: the relation between architecture, emotion and perception

By Andréa de Paiva Poster for the ANFA (Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture) Conference 2018, in San Diego. Click here to see the...

Communicating with the Client: how neuroscience can help

By Andréa de Paiva Have you ever had to convince a client that was insisting about questioning your project? Certainly yes. This is one...

NeuroArchitecture and the impacts of light on the brain

By Andréa de Paiva Who have never suffered with insomnia after a few hours on the computer? How is your home lighting design during...

NeuroArchitecture, Message and Power

By Andréa de Paiva and Fabio Menezes One of the most interesting experiences of a trip abroad is to try the public transport to have a...

NeuroArchitecture in the World Cup: Stadiums Identity

By Andréa de Paiva and Fabio Menezes The FIFA World Cup 2018 in Russia final is coming and, since we were there, we will start now a...

Workplaces and Brain Health: NeuroArchitecture Insights

By Andréa de Paiva Have you ever analysed how many hours you spend in your work space? Making a simple counting, considering just 8 hours...

NeuroArchitecture, Emotion and Decision

By Andréa de Paiva Have you ever regretted any decision you made in the heat of a moment? Or have you ever counted till 10 to avoid...

How much NeuroArchitecture can be found on Public Housing Projects? - Part II

By Andréa de Paiva This article is based on the author's visits to public housing projects in Brazil to a consulting job performed at FGV...

NeuroArchitecture and the Challenges of Hospital Architecture – Part I

By Andréa de Paiva What is the role of architecture in a hospital building? To create environments that stimulate the doctors’...

Who do Architects and Designers Work for?

By Andréa de Paiva and Fabio Menezes It might seem a simple question, but it raises some relevant issues: who do architects and designers...

How much NeuroArchitecture can be found on Public Housing? - Part I

By Andréa de Paiva This article is based on the author's visits to public housing projects in Brazil to a consulting job performed at FGV...

NeuroArchitecture & Workplace Design: How Space can Affect Performance and Wellbeing

Por Andréa de Paiva Poster for the BridgeSynapses, 2016, at ANFA (Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture) in San Diego. Click here to...

Sick Cities

By Andréa de Paiva According to WHO – World Health Organization – data from 2017, in the last 10 years there has been a 18% growth in the...

Understanding Biophilia

By Andréa de Paiva When we are tired and decide to take a few days off to relax somewhere, where do we go? Generally, to get away urban...

12 Principles of NeuroArchitecture and NeuroUrbanism

By Andréa de Paiva 1 – NeuroArchitecture, as well as NeuroUrbanism, is defined as the application of neuroscience in built spaces,...

What is NeuroArchitecture?

By Andréa de Paiva Imagine what the world would be like if architects designed even more efficient buildings, such as schools that...

Articles

Emotional Awareness and the Physical Environment: contributions from NeuroArchitecture

Neurodiversity and Accessibility: insights from NeuroArchitecture

How long do we stay in the same space and how does it affect us? NeuroArchitecture Insights

NeuroArchitecture and Spaces with a Focus on Creativity

ANFA 2020 | An approach to categorization of effects of architecture on the brain

NeuroArchitecture and Perception: creating more complete experiences for environments

Spaces for Children: what NeuroArchitecture can teach us

Conceptualizing Einfühlung's Theory

Teaching Environments and the Pandemic: reflections from NeuroArchitecture

The Future of Offices: NeuroArchitecture's insights for post-pandemic times

Epigenetics and NeuroArchitecture: until what level can the environment affect us?

NeuroArchitecture in Times of Lockdown

NeuroArchitecture: limits and possibilities

NeuroArchitecture and Empathy: fuel to creativity

Unconscious Bias: where are they?

What NeuroUrbanism Teaches us About our Cities

The Eyes of The Body: perception, sensoriality and neuroarchitecture

What Disney teaches us about NeuroArchitecture

Color Effects: insights from neuroarchitecture

NeuroArchitecture and the Role of Emotions

Spatial Navigation: NeuroArchitecture and the Brain's GPS

Emotions & Senses: the relation between architecture, emotion and perception

Communicating with the Client: how neuroscience can help

NeuroArchitecture and the impacts of light on the brain

NeuroArchitecture, Message and Power

NeuroArchitecture in the World Cup: Stadiums Identity

Workplaces and Brain Health: NeuroArchitecture Insights

NeuroArchitecture, Emotion and Decision

How much NeuroArchitecture can be found on Public Housing Projects? - Part II

NeuroArchitecture and the Challenges of Hospital Architecture – Part I

Who do Architects and Designers Work for?

How much NeuroArchitecture can be found on Public Housing? - Part I

NeuroArchitecture & Workplace Design: How Space can Affect Performance and Wellbeing

Sick Cities​

Understanding Biophilia

12 Principles of NeuroArchitecture and NeuroUrbanism

What is NeuroArchitecture?

Sick Cities