Architecture Affecting Human Behavior: An Analysis

Architecture is the art, which above all others, combines expression, technology, and the satisfaction of the human needs Its purpose is to make places where people feel more human, more alive and more fulfilled. It has long been recognized that architecture is influenced by many forces, among them those articulated by Vitruvius in the first century B.C. But how often do we really pay serious attention to the needs of the user, to the behavioral, social and culture determinants of design, and the role of good design in affecting human behavior. Our research question was How does architecture affect the human behavior, thoughts, senses, perceptions, and decisions? Of course there were many studies that handled this issue

(2013) in his book " Environmental psychology: An introduction" He also studied the effect of architecture on the human behavior but he limited his study on employees and how the employees react with the architecture of the design of the place they are working for and how various jobs need different designs and how to choose the right design for the right job. He said: " Through my life I have seen and worked in many architectural designs that either were well functionally designed and were perfectly pleasing or were not, and that incorporated nature and did not. For example, in regards to certain architectural designs, the buildings were not perfectly pleasing designs and had a very poor lighting or no natural lighting and also have no open space designs; as a result this had a negative impact on behavior and employee morale. In these types of architectural designs both employees and I felt upset and

A study for Sommer (1969) in his book "The Behavioral Basis for Design" he divided his book into two sections: the first section is theoretical, and the second section concerns methods and their applications. He mentioned how the architect must put in his consideration how his design will affect the behavior of the people who will live in the building he asserted that the architect “through his training and practice, they taught designer how to look at buildings without people in them, So he should learn how to look at it imagining the life of people who will live in it. In a study for Neal Kumar Katyal in his book "Architecture as Crime Control" he discussed how architecture control crime he limited his study for the crime control he mentioned that:" It was not only in specific areas, but also in specific types of buildings, that crime is much more likely. Particular stores are often chosen for robbery because they are located near main roads but tend to be too far away from the roads to be seen by