Main entry:

Minding Design (Symposium) (2012 : Scottsdale, Ariz.),

Title & Author:

Mind in architecture : neuroscience, embodiment, and the future of design / edited by Sarah Robinson and Juhani Pallasmaa.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2015.

Description:

x, 259 pages : illustrations (color) ; 23 cm

Notes:
"This book has its origins at the Minding Design symposium that took place at Taliesin West in November, 2012, an event sponsored by the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and Taliesin, the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Survival through design / Sarah Robinson -- "Know thyself": or what designers can learn from the contemporary biological sciences / Harry Francis Mallgrave -- The embodied meaning of architecture / Mark L. Johnson -- Body, mind and imagination: the mental essence of architecture / Juhani Pallasmaa -- Towards a neuroscience of the design process / Michael Arbib -- Tending to the world / Iain McGilchrist -- Architecture and neuroscience : a double helix / John Paul Eberhard -- Nested bodies / Sarah Robinson -- Embodied simulation, aesthetics and architecture: an experimental aesthetic approach / Vittorio Gallese and Alessandro Gattara -- From intuition to immersion: architecture and neuroscience / Melissa Farling -- Neuroscience for architecture / Thomas D. Albright -- Mood and meaning in architecture / Alberto Pérez Gómez.

Summary:

Although we spend more than ninety percent of our lives inside buildings, we understand very little about how the built environment affects our behavior, thoughts, emotions, and well-being. We are biological beings whose senses and neural systems have developed over millions of years; it stands to reason that research in the life sciences, particularly neuroscience, can offer compelling insights into the ways our buildings shape our interactions with the world. This expanded understanding can help architects design buildings that support both mind and body. In Mind in Architecture, leading thinkers from architecture and other disciplines, including neuroscience, cognitive science, psychiatry, and philosophy, explore what architecture and neuroscience can learn from each other. They offer historical context, examine the implications for current architectural practice and education, and imagine a neuroscientifically informed architecture of the future. Architecture is late in discovering the richness of neuroscientific research. As scientists were finding evidence for the bodily basis of mind and meaning, architecture was caught up in convoluted cerebral games that denied emotional and bodily reality altogether. This volume maps the extraordinary opportunity that engagement with cutting-edge neuroscience offers present-day architects.

ISBN:

9780262028875 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0262028875 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780262533607 (paperback)
026253360X (paperback)

Subject:

Neurosciences in architecture Congresses.
Architecture Human factors Congresses.
Architectural design Psychological aspects Congresses.
Neurosciences en architecture Congrès.
Architecture Facteurs humains Congrès.
Design architectural Aspect psychologique Congrès.
Architecture and Planning.
Architectural design Psychological aspects
Architecture Human factors
Neurosciences in architecture
Arkitektur psykologiska aspekter.
Konferenser.

Form/genre:

Conference papers and proceedings

Added entries:

Robinson, Sarah (Architect), editor.
Pallasmaa, Juhani, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 289485
Call No.: BIB 231999
Status: Available