The Architect's Brain

Harry Francis Mallgrave

• 25 mei 2011
• 9781118078679

Samenvatting:

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. bulletlistbulletExplores various moments of architectural thought over the last 500 years as a cognitive manifestation of philosophical, psychological, and physiological theorybulletLooks at architectural thought through the lens of the remarkable insights of contemporary neuroscience, particularly as they have advanced within the last decadebulletDemonstrates the 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/bulletlist