Mallgrave, Harry Francis.

The architect's brain : neuroscience, creativity, and architecture / Harry Francis Mallgrave. - Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell, c2010. - viii, 273 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-266) and index.

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.

9781405195850 (hbk.)


Cognitive neuroscience.
Architects.
Architecture and philosophy.
Architecture and science.
Creative ability.

612.8233 / MAL 2010