Building for brains

Scientific American provides an overview of research that explores exactly how the built environment impacts how we think and feel. Unsurprisingly, natural light and a nice view prove beneficial to concentration and learning, which just gives empirical support to the general perception of the Humanities building at UW as a, quite literally, concrete obstacle to effective teaching. Harry Weese's Brutalist architecture may well be worth saving, but the place doesn't work as learning environment (and materially it's in a shite state).