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Autore |
Mallgrave Harry Francis |
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The architect's brain : neuroscience, creativity, and architecture / / Harry Francis Mallgrave |
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Chichester, West Sussex, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , [2010] |
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©2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-118-07867-5 |
1-282-48323-4 |
9786612483233 |
0-470-65825-8 |
1-4443-1727-X |
1-4443-1728-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (283 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Architects |
Architecture and philosophy |
Architecture and science |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The Architect's Brain; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Part I Historical Essays; 1 The Humanist Brain: Alberti, Vitruvius, and Leonardo; 2 The Enlightened Brain: Perrault, Laugier, and Le Roy; 3 The Sensational Brain: Burke, Price, and Knight; 4 The Transcendental Brain: Kant and Schopenhauer; 5 The Animate Brain: Schinkel, Bötticher, and Semper; 6 The Empathetic Brain: Vischer, Wölfflin, and Göller; 7 The Gestalt Brain: The Dynamics of the Sensory Field; 8 The Neurological Brain: Hayek, Hebb, and Neutra; 9 The Phenomenal Brain: Merleau-Ponty, Rasmussen, and Pallasmaa |
Part II Neuroscience and Architecture10 Anatomy: Architecture of the Brain; 11 Ambiguity: Architecture of Vision; 12 Metaphor: Architecture of Embodiment; 13 Hapticity: Architecture of the Senses; Epilogue: The Architect's Brain; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index |
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The Architect's Brain: Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture is the |
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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 |
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