Ann Sussman is president of the Human Architecture and Planning Institute, an educational nonprofit. She is an architect, author, and researcher with a focus on how buildings influence people emotionally. Sussman is the co-author of Urban Experience and Design, Contemporary Perspectives on Improving the Public Realm and Cognitive Architecture, Designing for How We Respond to the Built Environment, which won the 2016 Place Research Award from the Environmental Design Research Association. Her work has also appeared in Common Edge, Planning Magazine, and Metropolis. A frequent speaker, she has given over 80 lectures at regional conferences, colleges and universities. She teaches a course on the human experience of buildings at Catholic University of America.
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Architects concern themselves with form, function, flow, and more recently, sustainability. But what role should beauty play in our built environment? And from whose perspecti...