ABSTRACT
This chapter utilizes choice theory and a framework for architectural interpretation to show how the middle term of human experience can be analyzed. There are three basic elements that make up rational choice theory: choice sets, preferences, and rationality. In developing the model of architectural experience and interpretation, the chapter points out that to predict the solution to Phil's choice problem accurately it is necessary to assume that no extraneous factors intervene, that other things are equal. It is important for architects and designers to be able to predict how different designs work and to explain such effects after the fact. As designers, architects must clarify the functions they want to support. If health is one of them, as it increasingly is in many parts of the world, they will need some theoretical understanding of the connection between architecture and health.
