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Don Ruggles is a keynote speaker and industry expert whose speaking topics include Architecture, Beauty, Business, Creativity, Design, Health, Mental Health, Neuroscience, Technology

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Don Ruggles Biography

Donald H. Ruggles is a practicing architect and CEO of Ruggles Mabe Studio, an award-winning boutique residential architecture and interior design firm based in Colorado. Founded in 1970, the firm is dedicated to the idea that beauty can improve the lives of its clients, representing more than 1,000 projects spanning 16 states and eight countries.

In 2017, Ruggles published his first book, “Beauty, Neuroscience & Architecture: Timeless Patterns & Their Impact on Our Well-Being,” which investigates how timeless forms and patterns in design affect our health and well-being. The book was made into a full-length documentary in 2020 titled “Built Beautiful, An Architecture & Neuroscience Love Story With Narration by Martha Stewart.” It suggests a new, urgent effort is needed to refocus the direction of design to include the quality of beauty as a fundamental, overarching theme in two of man’s most important fields — the built and artistic environments.

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Don Ruggles Speaking Topics

The Impact of Materials and Methods on our Wellbeing

In this session, the presenter suggests a new, urgent effort is needed to refocus the direction of design to include the quality of beauty as a fundamental, overarching theme in two of man’s most important fields — the built and artistic environments. Beauty, Neuroscience & Architecture: Timeless Patterns & Their Impact on Our Well-Being, Don Ruggles’ first book on the subject and winner of a Bronze Medal IPPY Award, details the neuroscientific connection between spending time in beautiful spaces and the impact on our well-being.

In his presentation, he suggests deciphering the beautiful use of materials and methods is more than traditional or contemporary, classical or modern. It’s about creating something that’s focused on the well-being and health of those who will be experiencing the design. He puts architects, builders and designers on notice to pay attention and use neuroscience, biology, psychology and architecture to create the new discipline of neuro-architectology. This method balances what is beautiful with what is exciting, allowing designers to begin to conceptualize our built environment to make us healthier and to improve our sense of well-being.
1. Use the concepts outlined in the new design discipline of neuro-architectology to design with the well-being of inhabitants in mind by utilizing the concept of homeostasis to properly balance subliminal neurological processing of external stimuli resulting in a stress-free built environment.
2. Apply beauty as an important part of functional architectural design by highlighting recent research identifying beauty as a pleasure response that results in a physical hormonal response improving important biometric and neurological criteria that leads to a healthier life.
3. Recognize the patterns of nature that have been asserted in timeless architectural design for millennia by focusing on the evolutionary history of humankind and how recognition of biophilic patterns that create a pleasure response have been passed on in our DNA over millions of years resulting a common set of subliminal reactions that all of humankind reacts positively to.
4. Identify resources for further study of the nexus between architecture and neuroscience. Specifically addressing how neuroscience is providing architects with the ability to quantify qualitative aspects of the built environment resulting in the ability to create environments where humankind can excel and thrive and avoid creating stress-inducing environments.
It’s Beautiful… And Good for Your Health

What makes architecture beautiful? And what features do the world’s most iconic structures share? Drawing upon fifty years of research, Don Ruggles explores how the emotion of beauty impacts our daily lives to improve our health and sense of well-being.

Beauty, Neuroscience and Architecture: How Classic Patterns Align with Beauty to Improve Health

Learn the historic influences of classic patterns; Facial patterning; Why and how beauty heals; Nine square design.

How do Design and Architecture Impact your Health?

Learn how architecture and design, with timeless forms and patterns, affects our health and well-being. Humans can respond to their environment from a survival or pleasure standpoint, and so Don discusses how and which forms and patterns can induce one or the other. Based on neuroscience studies, incorporating this knowledge when building and designing spaces destined for healthcare can help patients and staff relieve stress. He explains how human brains perceive specific patterns that are familiar and non-threatening and provides some examples that have been used for hundreds of years in architecture and designed instinctually.

Don Ruggles Videos

It’s Beautiful… And Good for Your Health | Don Ruggles | TEDxBreckenridge

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Don Ruggles Books

Beauty, Neuroscience, and Architecture: Timeless Patterns and Their Impact on Our Well-Being

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FAQs on booking Don Ruggles

How do I book Don Ruggles to speak at my event?

Our experienced booking agents have successfully helped clients around the world secure speakers like Don Ruggles for speaking engagements, personal appearances, product endorsements, or corporate entertainment since 2002. Click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page to check availability for Don Ruggles, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to discuss your upcoming event. One of our experienced agents will be happy to help you get speaking fee information and check availability for Don Ruggles or any other speaker of your choice.
What are the speaker fees for Don Ruggles

Speaking fees for Don Ruggles, or any other speakers and celebrities, are determined based on a number of factors and may change without notice. The estimated fees to book Don Ruggles are for live events and for virtual events. For the most current speaking fee to hire Don Ruggles, click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to speak directly with an experienced booking agent.
What topics does Don Ruggles speak about?

Don Ruggles is a keynote speaker and industry expert whose speaking topics include Architecture, Beauty, Business, Creativity, Design, Health, Mental Health, Neuroscience, Technology.
Where does Don Ruggles travel from?

Don Ruggles generally travels from Denver, CO, USA, but can be booked for private corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. For more details, please contact an AAE Booking agent.
Who is Don Ruggles’s agent?

AAE Speakers Bureau has successfully booked keynote speakers like Don Ruggles for clients worldwide since 2002. As a full-service speaker booking agency, we have access to virtually any speaker or celebrity in the world. Our agents are happy and able to submit an offer to the speaker or celebrity of your choice, letting you benefit from our reputation and long-standing relationships in the industry. Please click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page including the details of your event, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536, and one of our agents will assist you to book Don Ruggles for your next private or corporate function.
What is a full-service speaker booking agency?

AAE Speakers Bureau is a full-service speaker booking agency, meaning we can completely manage the speaker’s or celebrity’s engagement with your organization from the time of booking your speaker through the event’s completion. We provide all of the services you need to host Don Ruggles or any other speaker of your choice, including offer negotiation, contractual assistance, accounting and billing, and event speaker travel and logistics services. When you book a speaker with us, we manage the process of hosting a speaker for you as an extension of your team. Our goal is to give our clients peace of mind and a best-in-class service experience when booking a speaker with us.
Why is AAE Speakers Bureau different from other booking agencies?

If you’re looking for the best, unbiased speaker recommendations, paired with a top-notch customer service experience, you’re in the right place. At AAE Speakers Bureau, we exclusively represent the interests of our clients - professional organizations, companies, universities, and associations. We intentionally do not represent the speakers we feature or book. That is so we can present our clients with the broadest and best performing set of speaker options in the market today, and we can make these recommendations without any obligation to promote a specific speaker over another. This is why when our agents suggest a speaker for your event, you can be assured that they are of the highest quality with a history of proven success with our other clients.

Don Ruggles is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as The Impact of Materials and Methods on our Wellbeing , It’s Beautiful… And Good for Your Health, Beauty, Neuroscience and Architecture: How Classic Patterns Align with Beauty to Improve Health and How do Design and Architecture Impact your Health?. The estimated speaking fee range to book Don Ruggles for your event is $5,000 - $10,000. Don Ruggles generally travels from Denver, CO, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Greg Lindsay, Karim Rashid, Kathy Ireland, Dr. Michael Time and Walter Hood. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Don Ruggles for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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