Psychology in Architecture - APS300400E

• Title: Psychology in Architecture
• Guaranteed by: Department of Psychology (21-KPS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2025
• Semester: summer
• Points: 6
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (20)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Is provided by: APS300400
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. Richard Jedon, Ph.D.
• Class: Exchange - 14.4 Psychology and Behav. Sciences
• Incompatibility : APS300400
• Is incompatible with: APS300400

Course completion requirements

1. Semestral tasks:

• participation in group debates

2. Final individual project:

• choose one of: a) review analysis, b) research plan, or c) individual topic (~ 3000 characters)

Last update: Jedon Richard, Mgr., Ph.D. (02.02.2026)

Syllabus

1. Introduction to the course | History of architectural psychology

2. Research methods (Home study)

3. Environmental perception

5. Emotions: Place attachment & Atmosphere

6. Behaviour: Crowding, Privacy, Personal space

7. Stress & Restoration

8. Cognition: Wayfinding & Aesthetics

9. Case study: built environment and sense of safety

10. Practice & future of architectural psychology

Last update: Jedon Richard, Mgr., Ph.D. (02.02.2026)