Mallgrave, Harry Francis <br/><br/>
Architect's brain :   neuroscience, creativity and architecture / 
by Harry Francis Mallgrave 
 - Chichester, West Sussex :  Wiley-Blackwell,  2010. 
 - viii, 273 p.: ill.  
<br/><br/> Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> This richly detailed study explores the issue of how architects view the phenomenal world. Mallgrave sketches various moments of architectural thought as a cognitive manifestation of philosophical, psychological, and physiological theory. He later repositions this question from the perspective of contemporary neuroscience 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781405195850 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>AR<br/>Cognitive neuroscience<br/>Creative ability<br/>Architecture and science<br/>Architecture and philosophy<br/>Architects
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>720.1  / MAL-A