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

Author/creator Mallgrave, Harry Francis
Format Book
Publication InfoChichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Descriptionviii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Portion of title Neuroscience, creativity, and architecture
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009036208
ISBN9781405195850 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN1405195851 (hardcover : alk. paper)