Environmental Psychology for Design

How does a room affect an occupant’s behavior and well-being? How does a building influence its residents’ health? Environmental Psychology for Design, 4th Edition, explores these questions with an in-depth look at psychosocial responses to the built environment. Awarded the 2006 ASID Joel Polsky Prize, the first edition served as an introduction to the discipline of environmental psychology and inspired readers to embrace its key concepts and incorporate them into their practice. This 4th edition continues to analyze the interaction between environments and human behavior and well-being, while exploring how individual differences related to age, gender, and cultural background impact that interaction. More discussions on logic formation and argumentation and how these ideas pertain to biological, psychological and sociological paradigms of thought have been incorporated. Additionally, chapters have been rearranged to allow for better content flow, and the emphasis will shift from person specific chapters to be place specific (i.e., schools for youth, long-term care facilities, and more). Ethical Consideration and Pandemic Ponderings box features are included throughout.

New to this Edition
-Chapters have been reorganized to be more location-centric (ie: schools, long-term care facilities, etc)
-Ethical Consideration and Pandemic Ponderings box features included for further discussion of timely topics

STUDIO Features Include
-Study smarter with self-quizzes featuring scored results and personalized study tips
-Review concepts with flashcards of terms and definitions

Instructor Resources
-Instructor’s Guide to help integrate the text into your classroom
-PowerPoint Slides for every chapter

Dak Kopec is an Architectural Psychologist and Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Dak has authored several books used by interior design educators, including four editions of Environmental Psychology for Design. He has also written the novel Broken Boys, a story that details the lives of young people coming to terms with their sexuality in the early 1990s.

Dr. Kopec is a two-time Polsky Prize winner, is credited with researching, developing, and administering the first low residency graduate program focused on designs for human health at the Boston Architectural College, and has been awarded honorary Fellowship to ASID (HFASID).

Dak served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii with a joint position in schools architecture and medicine, was listed as a Fulbright Specialist, and subsequently served two terms as a Fulbright Reviewer. In 2017 Dak won IDEC’s Community Service Award for the design of a group home for people with developmental disabilities and early onset dementia. Today Dak is interested in promoting healthy spaces for the LGBTQ+ community by calling upon his diverse educational background in health sciences, psychology, and architecture. He is committed to design that promotes social equality for all people.