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For twenty years, architect and designer Danish Kurani has been transforming spaces to improve people’s health and happiness through the design of schools, homes, offices, and community centers across four continents. The Spaces That Make Us offers you: - A clear, easy-to-follow philosophy you can apply to any space—your home, office, school, or neighborhood. - Surprising research revealing how design impacts your physical health, emotional well-being, and the quality of your relationships. - A journey through the past 2 million years, arriving at how current design practices make life worse. - An inspiring vision for creating future designs and a compelling call to rethink design’s fundamentals - Practical strategies for using smarter design to improve your life, at any budget level. Kurani unveils a lifechanging design philosophy, Baaham (pronounced BAH-hum), a word from Urdu meaning “in tandem”—describing two interconnected things working in harmony. 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