Paper 2: Heating and Ventilating Aesthetic Theory

This paper attempts to show the relationship between physiological responses to an environment and aesthetic pleasure. It does so by tracing the transference of primal pleasure-pain reactions to analogous perception and thence through pattern perception to the function of contrast as a fundamental aspect of aesthetics. It elaborates these ideas as they affect heating and ventilation and suggests lines of thought which might prove fruitful in the relevant field of environmental design.