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The Architect's Brain: Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture

ISBN: 978-1-4051-9585-0
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288 pages
December 2009, Wiley-Blackwell
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Introduction

Part One: Historical Essays

1. The Humanist Brain (Alberti, Vitruvius, and Leonardo).

2. The Enlightened Brain (Perrault, Laugier, and Le Roy).

3. The Sensational Brain (Burke, Price, and Knight).

4. The Transcendental Brain (Kant and Schopenhauer).

5. The Animate Brain (Schinkel, Bötticher, and Semper).

6. The Empathetic Brain (Vischer, Wölfflin, and Göller).

7. The Gestalt Brain (The Dynamics of the Sensory Field).

8. The Neurological Brain (Hayek, Hebb, and Neutra).

9. The Phenomenal Brain (Merleau-Ponty, Rasmussen, and Pallasmaa).

Part Two: Neuroscience and Architecture.

10. Anatomy: Architecture of the Brain.

11. Ambiguity: Architecture of Vision.

12. Metaphor: Architecture of Embodiment.

13. Hapticity: Architecture of the Senses.

14. Epilogue: The Architect's Brain.

Endnotes.

Bibliography.

Index.

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