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041 _aeng
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100 _aMallgrave, Harry Francis
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245 _aArchitect's brain :
_bneuroscience, creativity and architecture /
_cby Harry Francis Mallgrave
260 _aChichester, West Sussex :
_bWiley-Blackwell,
_c2010.
300 _aviii, 273 p.: ill.
500 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _aIntroduction -- 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.
520 _aThis 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
650 _aAR
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650 _aCognitive neuroscience
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650 _aCreative ability
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650 _aArchitecture and science
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650 _aArchitecture and philosophy
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650 _aArchitects
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