The Architect's Brain Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture

by Mallgrave, Harry Francis

• ISBN13: 9781405195850
• ISBN10: 1405195851
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-21
• 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, and the two-volume Architectural Theory: An Anthology from Vitruvius to 2005 (Wiley-Blackwell 2008). His forthcoming Introduction to Architectural Theory: 1968 to the Present. A Critical History will be published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2010. 

Table of Contents

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

Endnotes

Bibliography

Index

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