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The architect's brain : neuroscience, creativity, and architecture / Harry Francis Mallgrave.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mallgrave, Harry Francis.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cognitive neuroscience.
- Architects.
- Architecture and philosophy.
- Architecture and science.
- Creative ability.
- Cognition--physiology.
- Psychophysiology.
- Architecture.
- Brain--physiology.
- Creativity.
- Medicine in the Arts.
- Medical Subjects:
- Cognition--physiology.
- Psychophysiology.
- Architecture.
- Brain--physiology.
- Creativity.
- Medicine in the Arts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 273 pages) : illustrations.
- Other Title:
- Neuroscience, creativity, and architecture
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Hoboken, N.J. Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781444317275 (electronic bk.)
- 144431727X (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 99991492268
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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