RESEARCH > Publications

  • Programming, design and evaluation of complex buildings
    Zimring, C.M. & Peatross, D. (1997). Designing for Workplace Culture, in G. Moore & R. Marans (eds.), Advances in Environment and Behavior Research and Design, New York: Plenum.

    Zimring, CM, Nepp, B. & Hillman, R. (1997). Facility visits, in S. O. Marberry (ed), Healthcare Design. New York: John Wiley.

    Zimring, WH Munyon and L Ard, “Reducing stress in jails” Ekistics Vol., 332, 215-230.

    “User friendly hospital layouts: The contributions of space syntax.” Journal of Healthcare Design, 1996, Vol. VIII. pp. 109-115 (with J. Peponis)

    Zimring (1994). A guide to conducting healthcare facility visits. Martinez, CA: Center for Health Design.

    M. Conan, E, Daniel Lacombe and C. Zimring (1994). Méthods de Programmation de “Maison de l’Etudient Paris: Centre Scientifique et Technique du Batiment. (Note: this is three-volume guide to programming of French student centers that deals with quantitative and qualitative programming issues and project management.)

    Zimring, C.M. (1989). Post occupancy evaluation and implicit theory. In W.F.E.Preiser (ed.) Building evaluation. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.

    Zimring, C.M. & Welch, P. (1988). "Learning from 20-20 Hindsight." Progressive Architecture, 55-62, July.

    Zimring, C.M., Wineman, J.D., & Carpman, J.R. (1988). Guest Editors, special issue on evaluation. Journal of Architecture and Planning Research, December.

    Zimring, C.M., Wineman, J.D., & Carpman, J.R . (1988). "The new demand-driven post-occupancy evaluation." Journal of Architecture and Planning Research, December.

    Zimring, C.M. (1987). Evaluation of designed environments: Methods for post-occupancy evaluation. In R. Bechtel, R. Marans & W. Michelson (Eds.) Methods in environmental and behavioral research. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.

    Zimring, C.M., Carpman, J.R. & Michelson, W. (1987). Environments for special populations. In D. Stokols and I. Altman (Eds.), Handbook of environmental psychology. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

    Wineman, J.D., Barnes, R.D. & Zimring, C.M. (Eds.) The Costs of Not Knowing: Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Conference of the Environmental Design Research Association. Washington, DC.: Environmental Design Research Association, 1986.

    Zimring, C.M. & Wener, R. (1985). "Evaluating evaluation," In a special issue on the use of evaluation, M. Kantrowitz & A. Seidel (Eds.) Environment and Behavior, 17, 97-117.

    Zimring, C.M. & Templer, J.A. (1983-1984). "Wayfinding by the visually impaired. In a special issue on environment and behavior," R. Wener (Ed.), Journal of Environmental Systems, 1983-1984, 13, 333-353.

    Zimring, C.M. (1982). The built environment as a source of psychological stress: impacts of buildings and cities on satisfaction and behavior. In G. Evans (Ed.) Psychological Stress. New York: Cambridge Press.

    Friedmann, A., Zimring, C.M., & Zube, E. (1978). Environmental Design Evaluation. New York: Plenum, 1978.


  • Space syntax and environment-behavior studies


  • Spatial cognition
    Blasch, B., Templer, J., & Zimring, C.M. (1991). Visually impaired people: Design for safety, information and orientation. Encyclopedia of Architecture. New York: Wiley.

    Zimring, C.M. (1991). Looking for the environment in environmental cognition research. In G.Evans and T. Garling (Eds) Environmental cognition. New York: Oxford University Press.

    Gross, M. D., & Zimring, C. (1990). Buildings, memory, and wayfinding. In K. H. A. J. C. B. O. Robert I. Selby (Ed.), Coming of age. EDRA 21/1990. (pp. 85-93): Environmental Design Research Association, Oklahoma City, OK, US.

    Peponis, J., Zimring, C., & Choi, Y. K. (1990). "Finding the building in wayfinding," Environment & Behavior, 22(5), 555-590.


  • Exhibit design and visitor experience (spatial layout and design of zoos, museums and other exhibit settings)



  • Office design, communication and productivity


  • Social, cultural and behavioral issues in urban design


  • Design cognition
    Craig, D.L. & Zimring, C. (2002). Support for collaborative design reasoning in shared virtual spaces. Automation in Construction, 11 (2), February, 249-259

    Dogan, F. (2001). Cognitive-Historical Analysis in Design Studies: A Case Study in Louis I. Kahn's First Unitarian Church. Technical Report GIT-COGSCI-2001/01.

    Zimring, C., Khan, S., David Craig, Haq S. & Guzdial, M. (2001). CoOL Studio: using simple tools to expand the discursive space of the design studio. Automation in Construction, 10( 6), August, 675-685.

    Zimring, C.M. & Craig, D.L. (2001). Defining design between domains: An argument for design research a la carte, in C. Eastman, M. McCracken, W. Newstetter, eds. Design knowing and learning: Cognition in design education, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam.

    Eastman, C.M. (2000). New Directions in Design Cognition: Studies of Representation and Recall, in Design Knowing and Learning: Cognition in Design Education, C. Eastman, M. McCracken, W. Newstetter, eds. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam (in press).

    Craig Zimring and David Latch Craig (2000). Defining design between domains: An argument for design research a la carte, in Design Knowing and Learning: Cognition in Design Education, C. Eastman, M. McCracken, W. Newstetter, eds. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam (in press).

    David Latch Craig, (2000). Stalking homo faber: A comparison of research strategies for studying design behavior, in Design Knowing and Learning: Cognition in Design Education, C. Eastman, M. McCracken, W. Newstetter, eds. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam (in press).

    Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Mark D. Gross, Bennett Neiman and Craig Zimring. (2000). Intentions in and relations among design drawings, Design Studies, 21 (5), September, 483-503.

    Craig, D.L., Zimring, C. (2000). Supporting collaborative design groups as design communities, Design Studies (21) 2, 187-204.

    Zimring, CM, Bafna, S & Do, E. (1996). "Structuring cases in a case-based design aid." in Jorge Vanegas and Paul Chinowsky (eds.), Third Congress on Design Computing, Anaheim, A/C/E '96, American Society of Civil Engineers, 17-19, June, 1996. p. 308-313,

    Zimring, C. M., Do, E., Domeshek, E., & Kolodner, J. (1995). Supporting case-study use in design education: A computational case-based design aid for architecture. In J. P. Mohesen (Ed.), Computing in civil engineering (pp. 1635-1642). New York: American Society of Civil Engineers (Zimring, Do, Domeshek, & Kolodner, 1995)

    E. Domeshek, J. Kolodner, and C. Zimring (1994). The Design of a Tool Kit for Case-Based Design Aids. J.S. Gero, ed. AID94: Third International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Design.. The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Press

    Pearce, M., Goel, A.K., Kolodner, J.L., Zimring, C.M., Sentosa, L., Billington, R., (1992) Case-based design support: A case study in architectural design. IEEE Expert, 7:5, 14-20.

    Goel, A., Kolodner, J., Pearce, M. Billington, R., & Zimring, C. (1991). A case-based tool for conceptual design problem solving. Proceedings of the Third DARPA Workshop on Case-based Reasoning, Washington, D.C., May 8-10, 109-120.

    Goel, G., Kolodner, J., Pearce, M., & Zimring, C.M. (1991). An experience-based aid to conceptual design.