Mallgrave The Architect's Brain

Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-07867-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, E-Book

The Architect's Brain: Neuroscience, Creativity, andArchitecture is the first book to consider therelationship between the neurosciences and architecture, offering acompelling and provocative study in the field of architecturaltheory.
* Explores various moments of architectural thought over thelast 500 years as a cognitive manifestation of philosophical,psychological, and physiological theory
* Looks at architectural thought through the lens of theremarkable insights of contemporary neuroscience, particularly asthey have advanced within the last decade
* Demonstrates the neurological justification for some verytimeless architectural ideas, from the multisensorynature of the architectural experience to the essentialrelationship of ambiguity and metaphor to creative thinking

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mallgrave, Harry Francis

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Part One: Historical Essays
1. The Humanist Brain (Alberti, Vitruvius, andLeonardo).
2. The Enlightened Brain (Perrault, Laugier, and LeRoy).
3. The Sensational Brain (Burke, Price, and Knight).
4. The Transcendental Brain (Kant and Schopenhauer).
5. The Animate Brain (Schinkel, Bötticher, andSemper).
6. The Empathetic Brain (Vischer, Wölfflin, andGöller).
7. The Gestalt Brain (The Dynamics of the SensoryField).
8. The Neurological Brain (Hayek, Hebb, and Neutra).
9. The Phenomenal Brain (Merleau-Ponty, Rasmussen, andPallasmaa).
Part Two: Neuroscience and Architecture.
10. Anatomy: Architecture of the Brain.
11. Ambiguity: Architecture of Vision.
12. Metaphor: Architecture of Embodiment.
13. Hapticity: Architecture of the Senses.
14. Epilogue: The Architect's Brain.
Endnotes.
Bibliography.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Harry Francis Mallgrave is a professor of architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology and has enjoyed a distinguished career as an award-winning scholar, translator, and architect. His most recent publications include Modern Architectural Theory: A Historical Survey, 1673-1968, and the two-volume Architectural Theory: An Anthology from Vitruvius to 2005 (Wiley-Blackwell 2008). His forthcoming Introduction to Architectural Theory: 1968 to the Present. A Critical History will be published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2010.