| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 273 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Front Matter -- Introduction -- Historical Essays. The Humanist Brain -- The Enlightened Brain -- The Sensational Brain -- The Transcendental Brain -- The Animate Brain -- The Empathetic Brain -- The Gestalt Brain -- The Neurological Brain -- The Phenomenal Brain -- Neuroscience and Architecture. Anatomy -- Ambiguity -- Metaphor -- Hapticity -- Epilogue: The Architect's Brain -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Introduction -- Historical essays -- The humanist brain : Alberti, Vitruvius, and Leonardo -- The enlightened brain : Perrault, Laugier, and Le Roy -- The sensational brain : Burke, Price, and Knight -- The transcendental brain : Kant and Schopenhauer -- The animate brain : Schinkel, Bötticher, and Semper -- The empathetic brain : Vischer, Wölfflin, and Göller -- The gestalt brain : the dynamics of the sensory field -- The neurological brain : Hayek, Hebb, and Neutra -- The phenomenal brain : Merleau-Ponty, Rasmussen, and Pallasmaa -- Neuroscience and architecture -- Anatomy : architecture of the brain -- Ambiguity : architecture of vision -- Metaphor : architecture of embodiment -- Hapticity : architecture of the senses -- Epilogue: The architect's brain |
| Summary |
The Architect's Brain: Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture is the first book to consider the relationship between the neurosciences and architecture, offering a compelling and provocative study in the field of architectural theory. Explores various moments of architectural thought over the last 500 years as a cognitive manifestation of philosophical, psychological, and physiological theoryLooks at architectural thought through the lens of the remarkable insights of contemporary neuroscience, particularly as they have advanced within the last decade |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Cognitive neuroscience.
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Architects.
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Architecture and philosophy.
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Architecture and science.
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Creative ability.
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architects.
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creativity.
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SCIENCE -- Cognitive Science.
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Architects
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Architecture and philosophy
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Architecture and science
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Cognitive neuroscience
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Creative ability
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009036208 |
| ISBN |
9781444317275 |
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144431727X |
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9781444317282 |
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1444317288 |
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1282483234 |
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9781282483231 |
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9781118078679 |
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1118078675 |
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9786612483233 |
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6612483237 |
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0470658258 |
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9780470658253 |
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