Constructing Health

Tye Farrow is a senior partner at Farrow Partners Architects. Working at the intersection of architecture and neuroscience, he is a world-recognized pioneer in tackling how our creations either give or cause health. With award-winning projects around the globe that enact salutogenic design – design that actively incites health – he is the first Canadian architect to have earned a Master of Neuroscience Applied to Architecture (University of Venice IUAV); he also has a Master of Architecture in Urban Design (Harvard University) and a Bachelor of Architecture degree (University of Toronto). He is a much sought-after speaker who has presented to respected organizations and universities in over forty cities on six continents, including the Salk Institute, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the Mayo Clinic, and the Cleveland Clinic.

1. Place, Health, Well-Being, and the Mind
2. Health and Well-Being: Our View through History
3. Where Does the Mind Stop and the Rest of the World Begin? The Embodied Brain, the Extended Mind
4. Affordances and Generosity
5. The Theory of Constructed Emotions: How We Construct Internal and External Relationships – Person-to-Person and Person-to-Place
6. The Study of Environmental Enrichment
7. The Qualities of Enriched Environments
8. The Theory of Positive Ambiguity: Interweaving the Qualities of Enriched Environments
9. Awakening All Our Senses: Creating Enriched Environments
10. City Making: Affordances, Generosity, and a Saluto-Systemic Approach to Placemaking
11. Living Places: House, Home, and a Sense of Coherence
12. Where We Are Learning: The Neurological, Psychological, and Emotional Benefits of Enriched Learning Environments for Students and Faculty
13. A Saluto-Systemic Approach to Healthcare Environments
14. Constructing Health and Human Performance: A Way Forward

Acknowledgments
About the Author
Endnotes
Bibliography
Glossary of Terms
Fifty Recommended Books to Read
Index of Photography and Images
Index of Projects