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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822874703321

Autore

Mallgrave Harry Francis.

Titolo

Architecture and embodiment : the implications of the new sciences and humanities for design / / Harry Francis Mallgrave

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-135-09423-3

0-415-81020-5

0-203-07114-X

1-135-09424-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

720.1

Soggetti

Architectural design

Architecture - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of illustrations; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Beauty; Darwin's haunting; Bowerbirds and mating habits; Neuroaesthetics; The human brain; The visual brain; The hedonic circuit; 2 The culture of architecture; Images and words; Radical embodiment; Brain plasticity and enculturation; Cultural change; The psychological model of cognitive evolution; The cultural model of cognitive evolution; The culture of architecture; 3 Emotion; The fractious brain; Later stages of visual processing; Feelings and emotions; Panksepp and Damasio

Feelings and emotions in architecture4 Experiencing architecture; Theories of empathy; The empathic Bauhaus; Embodied simulation; 5 Play, rituals, and other artistic things; On the origin of art; The play-instinct; Human evolution; From Darwin to Dissanayake; Epilogue: some concluding remarks; Index

Sommario/riassunto

<P>In recent years we have seen a number of dramatic discoveries within the biological and related sciences. Traditional arguments such as ""nature versus nurture"" are rapidly disappearing because of the realization that just as we are affecting our environments, so too do these altered environments restructure our cognitive abilities and



outlooks. If the biological and technological breakthroughs are promising benefits such as extended life expectancies, these same discoveries also have the potential to improve in significant ways the quality of our built environments. This poses a compellin