The architect's brain : neuroscience, creativity, and architecture / Harry Francis Mallgrave.
| Author/creator | Mallgrave, Harry Francis |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. |
| Description | viii, 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2009036208 |
| ISBN | 9781405195850 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1405195851 (hardcover : alk. paper) |