Visuality for architects : architectural creativity and modern theories of perception and imagination / Branko Mitrović.

Main entry:

Mitrovic, Branko.

Title & Author:

Visuality for architects : architectural creativity and modern theories of perception and imagination / Branko Mitrović.

Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013.

Description:

xvi, 120 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-114) and index.
Architecture: form or story -- The eye is innocent, but the brain can be a liar -- Perspective and its discontents -- Perceiving and thinking about space -- The return of the visual.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

This book examines the ways in which new theories of human visuality create a different understanding of architectural design, practice, and education. This new understanding coincides with and supports formalist approaches to architecture that have become influential in recent years as a result of the digital revolution in architectural design. -- Publisher's description.

ISBN:

9780813933788 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0813933781 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780813933795 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
081393379X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
(e-book)
9780813933962

Subject:

Architecture Philosophy.
Visual perception Psychological aspects.
Perception visuelle Aspect psychologique.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 283167
Call No.: BIB 221203
Status: Available

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