The architect's brain : neuroscience, creativity, and architecture /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Mallgrave, Harry Francis (συγγραφέας.)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
• Θέματα: Γνωσιακή νευροεπιστήμη.; Νευροεπιστήμες > Αρχιτεκτονική; Αρχιτεκτονική > Φιλοσοφία; Αρχιτεκτονική και επιστήμη; Δημιουργική ικανότητα

"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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.