Compendium of Architectural Psychology

This essential provides planning-relevant information on architectural psychology concepts and empirical results on the effects of built environments on people, and provides guidance on how to optimize the relationship between people and the built environment.

This Springer essential is a translation of the original German 1st edition essentials, Kompendium der Architekturpsychologie  by Antje Flade, published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature in 2020. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors.

The Content


Architecture and Psychology. - Architectural psychology.- Paradigms of man-environment relations.- The Behavior Setting concept.- The perceived environment.- Affective qualities of environments.- Environmental aesthetics.- Privacy.- Territoriality.- Crowding and distance behavior.- Restorative  environments.- Third places in public space.- Methods of architectural psychology research.


The Target groups

Architects, urban planners, designers, psychologists, employees in housing and real estate companies, investors    Students in the fields of architecture, urban planning, design and psychology
The Author

After studying psychology in Hamburg, the author completed her doctorate at the Technical University of Darmstadt on the topic of perceptual thresholds. Questions of environmental perception aroused her interest in environmental psychology, which she pursued in numerous research projects as a scientist at the interdisciplinary Institute Living and Environment (Wohnen und Umwelt) in Darmstadt. She is author of psychological reference books and journals on topics in residential and architectural psychology, mobility and urban psychology as well as the psychology of nature.