As we progress through this new millennium, we discover
how something is missing. Neuroscience and environmental
psychology can sustain our effort to grasp how architectures and cities could adequately respond to this sense of
lack. But, if we look more closely at the evolutive trajectory
of humans’ mind evolution, we can discover, only apparently in a paradoxical way, how philosophy is central to our
architectural investigation. We could conclude by saying
architects need to retake a renewed humanistic approach to
design or, more simply, adopt a rigorously undisciplined vision of their social task. We should be undisciplined because we must break down sterile fences between disciplines. Still, it is rigorous because to make this step, we
must assume precisely the endeavor to study neurosciences,
biology, history, and philosophy. It makes the architectural
effort a multidisciplinary job, even if, in this frame, architects would have to extend their interests through a new,
more humanistic approach to the design.
