Main entry:

Mallgrave, Harry Francis, author.

Title & Author:

Architecture and embodiment : the implications of the new sciences and humanities for design / Harry Francis Mallgrave.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Description:

xi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Beauty : Darwin's haunting ; Bowerbirds and mating habits ; Neuroaesthetics ; The human brain ; The visual brain ; The hedonic circuit -- The culture of architecture : Images and words ; Radical embodiment ; Brain plasticity and enculturation ; Cultural change ; The psychological model of cognitive evolution ; The cultural model of cognitive evolution ; The culture of architecture -- Emotion : The fractious brain ; Later stages of visual processing ; Feelings and emotions ; Panksepp and Damasio ; Feelings and emotions in architecture -- Experiencing architecture : Theories of empathy ; The empathic Bauhaus ; Embodied simulation -- Play, rituals, and other artistic things : On the origin of art ; The play-instinct ; Human evolution ; From Darwin to Dissanayake ; Epilogue : Some concluding remarks.

Summary:

In recent years we have seen a number of dramatic discoveries within the biological and related sciences. Traditional arguments such as "nature versus nuture" are rapidly disappearing because of the realisation that just as we are affecting our enviornments, so too do these altered environments restructure our cognitive abilities and outlooks.

ISBN:

9780415810197 (hb ; alk. paper)
0415810191 (hb ; alk. paper)
9780415810203 (pb ; alk. paper)
0415810205 (pb ; alk. paper)
9780203071144 (ebook)
020307114X (ebook)

Subject:

Architectural design.
Architecture Philosophy.
Design architectural.
Architecture Philosophie.
Arkitektur psykologiska aspekter.
Arkitekturteori.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286360
Call No.: BIB 226608
Status: Available