Architecture and embodiment : the implications of the new sciences and humanities for design / / Harry Francis Mallgrave
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| Autore: |
Mallgrave Harry Francis.
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| Titolo: |
Architecture and embodiment : the implications of the new sciences and humanities for design / / Harry Francis Mallgrave
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| Pubblicazione: | Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 720.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Architectural design |
| Architecture - Philosophy | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Architecture and embodiment |
| ISBN: | 1-135-09423-3 |
| 0-415-81020-5 | |
| 0-203-07114-X | |
| 1-135-09424-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910779746003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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