TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mallgrave, Harry Francis
TI  - Architect's brain : : neuroscience, creativity and architecture 
SN  - 9781405195850
U1  - 720.1 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Chichester, West Sussex
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
KW  - AR
KW  - Cognitive neuroscience
KW  - Creative ability
KW  - Architecture and science
KW  - Architecture and philosophy
KW  - Architects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
ER  -