The Architect's Brain Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture

by Mallgrave, Harry Francis

• ISBN13: 9780470658253
• ISBN10: 0470658258
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-05-06
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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 theory Looks at architectural thought through the lens of the remarkable insights of contemporary neuroscience, particularly as they have advanced within the last decade Demonstrates 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

Author Biography

Harry Francis Mallgrave is a professor of architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology, and has enjoyed a distinguished career as an award-winning scholar, translator, and architect. His most recent publications include Modern Architectural Theory: A Historical Survey, 1673-1968, the two volumes of Architectural Theory: An Anthology from Vitruvius to 2005 (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005 and 2008, volume 2 with Christina Contandriopoulos), and An Introduction to Architectural Theory (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, with David Goodman).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Historical Essays	p. 7
The Humanist Brain: Alberti, Vitruvius, and Leonardo	p. 9
The Enlightened Brain: Perrault, Laugier, and Le Roy	p. 26
The Sensational Brain: Burke, Price, and Knight	p. 41
The Transcendental Brain: Kant and Schopenhauer	p. 53
The Animate Brain: Schinkel, Bötticher, and Semper	p. 61
The Empathetic Brain: Vischer, Wölfflin, and Göller	p. 76
The Gestalt Brain: The Dynamics of the Sensory Field	p. 85
The Neurological Brain: Hayek, Hebb, and Neutra	p. 98
The Phenomenal Brain: Merleau-Ponty, Rasmussen, and Pallasmaa	p. 109
Neuroscience and Architecture	p. 123
Anatomy: Architecture of the Brain	p. 125
Ambiguity: Architecture of Vision	p. 139
Metaphor: Architecture of Embodiment	p. 159
Hapticity: Architecture of the Senses	p. 188
Epilogue: The Architect's Brain	p. 207
Endnotes	p. 221
Bibliography	p. 253
Index	p. 267
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