Main entry:

Mallgrave, Harry Francis.

Title & Author:

The architect's brain : neuroscience, creativity, and architecture / Harry Francis Mallgrave.

Edition:

Pbk. ed.

Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

Description:

viii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Part I. 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 -- Part II. 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.

ISBN:

9781405195850 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1405195851 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780470658253 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0470658258 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781444317282 (ePDF)
1444317288 (ePDF)
9781444317275 (Wiley Online Library)
144431727X (Wiley Online Library)
9781118078679 (ePub)
1118078675 (ePub)

Subject:

Cognitive neuroscience.
Architects.
Architecture and philosophy.
Architecture and science.
Creative ability.
Neurosciences cognitives.
Architectes.
Architecture et philosophie.
Architecture et sciences.
Créativité.
architects.
creativity.

Added entries:

Neuroscience, creativity, and architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286389
Call No.: BIB 226684
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available