In Place and public health: the impact of architecture on wellbeing, Karl Johnson writes about architecture’s ability to impact health and wellbeing; illustrating this fact through a story about the transformative effect architecture had on a tsunami torn village in Japan.
“Architects play a critical role in shaping the qualities of our environment; they work in collaboration with end users and their needs and ambitions, and they have the power to restore and promote solidarity, mental and physical health and be a source of happiness.”