The architect's brain
Subtitle: neuroscience, creativity, and architecture
By: Harry Francis Mallgrave.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781405195850
Subjects: Cognitive neuroscience; Architects; Architecture and philosophy; Architecture and science; Creative ability
Other titles: Neuroscience, creativity, and architecture
Description: "In part one of The Architect's Brain, [author] sketches various moments of architectural thought over the last 500 years as a cognitive manifestation of philosophical, psychological and physiological theory. In part two, he repositions this question from the perspective of the remarkable insights of contemporary neurosciences, particularly as they have advanced within the last decade. What emerges is a surprising neurological justification for some very timeless architectural ideas, from the multisensory nature of the architectural experience to the essential relationship of ambiguity and metaphor to creative thinking."--Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Pt. 1. Historical essays. 1. The humanist brain : Alberti, Vitruvius, and Leonardo; title: 2. The enlightened brain : Perrault, Laugier, and Le Roy; title: 3. The sensational brain : Burke, Price, and Knight; title: 4. The transcendental brain : Kant and Schopenhauer; title: 5. The animate brain : Schinkel, Bötticher, and Semper; title: 6. The empathetic brain : Vischer, Wölfflin, and Göller; title: 7. The gestalt brain : the dynamics of the sensory field; title: 8. The neurological brain : Hayek, Hebb, and Neutra; title: 9. The phenomenal brain : Merleau-Ponty, Rasmussen, and Pallasmaa; title: Pt. 2. Neuroscience and architecture. 10. Anatomy : architecture of the brain; title: 11. Ambiguity : architecture of vision; title: 12. Metaphor : architecture of embodiment; title: 13. Hapticity : architecture of the senses; title: 14. Epilogue. The architect's brain.