Jack L. Nasar, Academy Professor City & Regional Planning, The Ohio State University applies science to the study of aesthetics, but he is also a photographer (jlnasar.zenfolio.com), artist (oil, acrylics) and jazz/blues/rock pianist. He is driven to understand environmental aesthetics, physical cues to positive and negative affect. Most of his host of peer-reviewed articles and three of his books deal with this (The Evaluative Image of the City, 1998; Visual Quality by Design, 2008; Environmental Aesthetics: Theory, Research, and Applications, 1988). His other books consider building performance (Designing for Designers, 2007; Design by Competition, 1999), universal design (Universal Design and Visitability, 2007) and advances in the field (Directions in Person-Environment Research and Practice, 1999). He served as the architectural critic for The Columbus Dispatch and wrote design criticism for Landscape Architecture magazine. An invited lecturer around the world and a fellow in the American Institute of Certified Planners and in the American Psychological Association, he received the Environmental Design Research Association Career Award, the EDRA Achievement award, and Distinguished Alumni Award from the School of Architecture, Washington University, St. Louis. He has degrees in architecture (AB, Washington University), urban planning (Masters, N.Y.U.) and environmental psychology (Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University).
