ABSTRACT
We don’t just occupy buildings physically but also psychologically, as they affect not only our bodies but also our behavior. This suggests that the fields of architecture and environmental psychology should be very much aligned, addressing the wellbeing of people in physical places, but that isn’t the case, in part because one field views the world mainly from an arts and humanities perspective, the other from a social sciences one. That disciplinary difference is a strength and should not keep these fields from their common ethical obligation of helping us construct a built environment that meets people’s psychological as well as physical needs.
