The Architect's Brain: Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture
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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 theory Looks at architectural thought through the lens of the remarkable insights of contemporary neuroscience, particularly as they have advanced within the last decade Demonstrates the neurological justification for some very timeless architectural ideas, from the multisensory nature of the architectural experience to the essential relationship of ambiguity and metaphor to creative thinking Review: As an architecture student. - I read this book as part of an architecture class and found it extremely dence as it was written as a philosophical and psychological perspective, and by a person who is not an architect. The book covers many subjects, including aesthetics and how and why we find certain architecture to be pleasing, perception or architecture as a multi sensory experience, And more. The first part of the book is a series of famous essays and the authors interpretation and elaboration on their insights. In the end a very dence but interesting book, worth the read for any architect worth his/her Salt. Review: Four Stars - good solid research on the subject and well worth reading
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| Customer Reviews | 4.1 out of 5 stars 17 Reviews |
B**N
As an architecture student.
I read this book as part of an architecture class and found it extremely dence as it was written as a philosophical and psychological perspective, and by a person who is not an architect. The book covers many subjects, including aesthetics and how and why we find certain architecture to be pleasing, perception or architecture as a multi sensory experience, And more. The first part of the book is a series of famous essays and the authors interpretation and elaboration on their insights. In the end a very dence but interesting book, worth the read for any architect worth his/her Salt.
S**T
Four Stars
good solid research on the subject and well worth reading
A**O
It is an interesting book, although more related to ...
It is an interesting book, although more related to human behavior than the interaction between the brain, the Architect, and Architecture.
P**R
Fascinating history of an obscure study of the realm of ...
Fascinating history of an obscure study of the realm of perception of architecture that it's practitioners have ignored for hundreds of years. Oh what they could have contributed to our lives.
R**S
Only for architects?
Interesting book, well written and well organized. However, their target audience is almost exclusively architects. The application of neuroscience to understanding the architecture is insufficient. The major theme of the book is the relationship between the brain and the perception of space in general. The contents of neuroscience and architecture often seems distant, treated separately. Still, worth reading. But it is necessary to complement this work with more knowledge on the impact of space on the brain, including the issue of neuroplasticity.
M**A
Excelente
Lo compré en Kindle, excelente contenido. En serio tiene información muy valiosa y más porque relaciona la teoría moderna de la arquitectura con estudios recientes de las neurociencias. Me sirvió mucho para mi tesis de posgrado.
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