Architecture & Well Being

Architect Michael Van Valkenburgh, designer of the renowned Brooklyn Bridge Park, speaks with award-winning architecture critic Sarah Williams Goldhagen about landscapes, buildings and cityscapes, and how they impact our personal and social lives. Goldhagen, author of Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives, brings her research on new discoveries in cognitive psychology and neuroscience to the conversation about how built environments shape our feelings, memories and well-being, and how we can harness this knowledge to construct a world better suited to human experience. Fellow architecture critic Paul Goldberger moderates.