Architectural Determinants of Health Detailed in Die Architekt Article
“The built environment has a direct impact on human well-being”
Pages from Form Follows Emotion, Die Architekt, featuring Placemaking article by Tye Farrow
Tye Farrow discusses ‘Placemaking: The Architectural Determinants of Health’ in an article for Die Architekt, a German publication offering critical discourse surrounding the design of architecture and the urban environment.
The Architectural Determinants of health is a model developed by Tye Farrow within his doctoral studies at the University of Toronto. The article features in the first issue of Die Architekt of 2026 titled, Form Follows Emotion? Feelings in Architectural Perception.
Tye Farrow explains that contemporary research on embodied cognition and the concept of extended mind have dissolved the previously accepted notion that the body and mind exist separately. Going one step further, he suggests that the mind, body and environment are connected and together can dictate human health. The built environment has the ability to shape thoughts, memories, and emotions, thereby altering both human psychology and physiology.
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Learn more about embodied cognition by reading Constructing Health, and discover how architecture can be a determinant of health by exploring Tye Farrow’s doctoral studies on the architectural determinants of health here.