Mind in architecture
Subtitle: neuroscience, embodiment, and the future of design
By: Edited by Sarah Robinson and Juhani Pallasmaa
Contributors: Robinson, Sarah (Architect) editor; Pallasmaa, Juhani, editor
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780262028875
Subjects: Neurosciences in architecture; Congresses; Architecture; Human factors; Architectural design
Description: Although we spend more than ninety percent of our lives inside buildings, we understand very little about how the built environment affects our behavior, thoughts, emotions, and well-being. We are biological beings whose senses and neural systems have developed over millions of years; it stands to reason that research in the life sciences, particularly neuroscience, can offer compelling insights into the ways our buildings shape our interactions with the world. This expanded understanding can help architects design buildings that support both mind and body. In Mind in Architecture, leading thinkers from architecture and other disciplines, including neuroscience, cognitive science, psychiatry, and philosophy, explore what architecture and neuroscience can learn from each other. They offer historical context, examine the implications for current architectural practice and education, and imagine a neuroscientifically informed architecture of the future. Architecture is late in discovering the richness of neuroscientific research. As scientists were finding evidence for the bodily basis of mind and meaning, architecture was caught up in convoluted cerebral games that denied emotional and bodily reality altogether. This volume maps the extraordinary opportunity that engagement with cutting-edge neuroscience offers present-day architects.
Notes: "This book has its origins at the Minding Design symposium that took place at Taliesin West in November, 2012, an event sponsored by the Frank   Lloyd Wright Foundation and Taliesin, the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Survival through design / Sarah Robinson; title: Know thyself / Harry Francis Mallgrave; title: The embodied meaning of architecture / Mark L. Johnson; title: Body, mind and imagination / Juhani Pallasmaa; title: Towards a neuroscience of the design process / Michael Arbib; title: Tending to the world / Iain McGilchrist; title: Architecture and neuroscience : a double helix / John Paul Eberhard; title: Nested bodies / Sarah Robinson; title: Embodied simulation, aesthetics and architecture / Vittorio Gallese and Alessandro Gattara; title: From intuition to immersion / Melissa Farling; title: Neuroscience for architecture / Tom Albright; title: Mood and meaning in architecture / Alberto Pérez Gómez.