1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910139479303321

Autore

Mallgrave Harry Francis

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , [2010]

©2010

ISBN

1-118-07867-5

1-282-48323-4

9786612483233

0-470-65825-8

1-4443-1727-X

1-4443-1728-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 p.)

Disciplina

720.924

Soggetti

Architects

Architecture and philosophy

Architecture and science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910146458503321

Titolo

2005 European Quantum Electronics Conference : 12-17 June 2005, Munich, Germany

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : IEEE, 2005

ISBN

9781538601488

1538601486

Soggetti

Quantum electronics

Lasers

Physics

Physical Sciences & Mathematics

Electricity & Magnetism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph