Photographers can apply now: Open call on the current themes Loneliness, Habits, Empty Spaces, Culture, Green and Diversity. No fee.
André Clemetsen Adjacent Solitude
Theme: Loneliness
39 photographs and 25 poems
Concrete Human is a photo exhibition about the impact of architecture on health and wellbeing.
We spend 87% of our lives behind walls.
Cities are growing denser, with higher buildings, smaller homes, darker rooms, louder streets and fewer places to rest. All of it changes how people sleep, how stressed they are and how often they fall ill. The scientific evidence on these effects is extensive, and we make it visible through photography. This is why we built Concrete Human. Here we exhibit photography and publish scientific findings on how architecture affects human wellbeing.
87%
of an American's day is spent inside buildings.
68%
of the world's population will live in cities by 2050
61% and 101%
higher cognitive scores in offices with cleaner air.
For professional photographers
Open now, no fee. Current themes are: Loneliness, Habits, Empty Spaces, Culture, Green and Diversity.
Our founding team
Concrete Human was founded in 2026 by the online publication The Built Review and the advisory firm neuecon partners together with the photographer André Clemetsen and Norway's former Minister of Climate and Environment, Ola Elvestuen.
One of the largest applied evidence bases on the built environment. Made for everyone who needs to work from scientific facts: architects, asset managers, developers, designers and HR managers.
neuecon partners is an independent advisory partnership for building projects. It applies environmental psychology and neuroscience to architecture.
Why do architects ignore neuroscientific evidence?
Researchers have documented the effects of daylight, noise and green space on health for decades. Their findings seldom reach people outside science.
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