On Monday I hopped on an early train to Geneva to meet with Eve Edelstein. Eve is an Adjunct Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine and a board member of the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA). Eve and I had met in San Francisco at our Encoding Experience event there, and she had kindly reached out to let me know she’d be passing by my general vicinity on her trip to Europe.
We met at the Cottage Café and over a couple of cappuccinos (cappuccini?) we had a really interesting discussion about the human experience of architecture, with a particular focus on the physiological nature of perception.
Before heading to my train we decided to go for a walk around the lake towards the famous jet d’eau.
On the way there we crossed the Pont du Mont-Blanc and didn’t think anything of it, apart from the Women’s Euro flags that reminded me Italy would be playing Portugal that evening in Geneva (a big match, no doubt, given the significant Italian and…