Dr. Tiziana Proietti
About
Tiziana Proietti (M.Arch., Ph.D.) is an architect and Assistant Professor at the Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture, University of Oklahoma. She is director of the Sense|Base Lab, which bridges architecture and neuroscience, with a focus on the perception of architectural proportion. Dr. Proietti earned her doctorate from the Department of Architecture at Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) in collaboration with Delft University of Technology (Netherlands). Her Ph.D. dissertation focused on the theory of proportion in architecture. Together with Dr. Sergei Gepshtein, a scientist from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, she is developing an interdisciplinary research program that combines neuroscientific knowledge and architectural design. This research tests long-standing hypotheses about human responses to architectural proportion. Dr. Proietti is also a member of the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA) Advisory Council, based in San Diego, California.
Selected Books
Proietti, T., Den Biesen, K. Hans van der Laan’s Instruments of Thought: Proportion, Architecture, Analogy. (Routledge, 2024). (Link)
Den Biesen K., Proietti, T. (eds.), Hans van der Laan. Trattati di Architettura e Liturgia, (Libria, 2020). (Link)
Proietti, T. (ed.). Hans Van der Laan. Viaggio a Roma, translated by T. Proietti (Castelvecchi, 2017). (Link)
Proietti, T. Ordine e Proporzione. Dom Hans van der Laan e l’espressività dello spazio architettonico (Quodlibet, 2015). (Link)
Proietti, T. Concinnitas. Principi estetici nell’opera di Leon Battista Alberti (Nuova Cultura, 2010) (Link)
Selected Articles and Book Chapters
Proietti, T., & Gepshtein, S. (2025). Vision training for designers. Architectural Science Review, 1–15. (Link)
Proietti, T. “Revisiting the Plastic Number theory from the perspective of perceptual psychology.” Architectural Science Review 64, 4, 346-358, 2021. (Link)
Proietti, T., & Gepshtein, S. “Architectural Proportion from an Empirical Standpoint.” Journal of Interior Design 47, 1, 11-29, 2022. (Link)
Proietti T., “The Aesthetics of Proportion in Hans van der Laan and Leon Battista Alberti.” Aisthesis, VIII, 2, 183-199, 2015. (Link)
Proietti, T., Gepshtein, S., “Proportioned and intelligible architecture,” in Routledge Companion to Smart Design Thinking in Architecture & Urbanism for a Sustainable Living Planet, Kanaani M. (Ed.), (2024). (Link)
Proietti, T., Gepshtein, S. 2022. “Locating Architectural Atmosphere,” in Generators of Architectural Atmospheres, Canepa E. (Ed.), pp. 95-110, (Kansas State University Library: New Prairie Press, 2022). (Link)