When Brains Meet Buildings

Author : Michael A. Arbib
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190060956
Total Pages : 697 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Brains Meet Buildings written by Michael A. Arbib and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Each brain enlivens a body in interaction with the social and physical environment. Peter Zumthor's Therme at Vals exemplifies the interplay of interior with surroundings, and ways the actions of users fuse with their multi-modal experience. The action-perception cycle includes both practical and contemplative actions. We analyze what Louis Sullivan meant by "form ever follows function" but will more often talk of aesthetics and utility. Not only are action, perception and emotion intertwined, but so are remembering and imagination. Architectural design leads to the physical construction of buildings - but much of what our brains achieve can be seen as a form of mental construction. A first look at neuroscience offers schema theory as a bridge from cognitive processes to neural circuitry. Some architects fear that neuroscience will strip the architect of any creativity. In counterpoint, two-way reduction explores how neuroscience can "dissect" phenomenology by showing how first-person experiences arise from melding diverse subconscious processes. This raises the possibility that neuroscience can extend the effectiveness of architectural design by showing how different aspects of a building may affect human experience in ways that are not apparent to self-reflection"--

Author : Michael A. Arbib
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780190060961
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Brains Meet Buildings written by Michael A. Arbib and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Each brain enlivens a body in interaction with the social and physical environment. Peter Zumthor's Therme at Vals exemplifies the interplay of interior with surroundings, and ways the actions of users fuse with their multi-modal experience. The action-perception cycle includes both practical and contemplative actions. We analyze what Louis Sullivan meant by "form ever follows function" but will more often talk of aesthetics and utility. Not only are action, perception and emotion intertwined, but so are remembering and imagination. Architectural design leads to the physical construction of buildings - but much of what our brains achieve can be seen as a form of mental construction. A first look at neuroscience offers schema theory as a bridge from cognitive processes to neural circuitry. Some architects fear that neuroscience will strip the architect of any creativity. In counterpoint, two-way reduction explores how neuroscience can "dissect" phenomenology by showing how first-person experiences arise from melding diverse subconscious processes. This raises the possibility that neuroscience can extend the effectiveness of architectural design by showing how different aspects of a building may affect human experience in ways that are not apparent to self-reflection"--

Author : John P. Eberhard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195331729
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brain Landscape The Coexistence of Neuroscience and Architecture written by John P. Eberhard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides both neuroscientists and architects with methods of organizing research that would help us understand human experiences in architectural settings.

Author : Sarah Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000342654
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecture is a Verb written by Sarah Robinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture is a Verb outlines an approach that shifts the fundamental premises of architectural design and practice in several important ways. First, it acknowledges the centrality of the human organism as an active participant interdependent in its environment. Second, it understands human action in terms of radical embodiment—grounding the range of human activities traditionally attributed to mind and cognition: imagining, thinking, remembering—in the body. Third, it asks what a building does—that is, extends the performative functional interpretation of design to interrogate how buildings move and in turn move us, how they shape thought and action. Finally, it is committed to articulating concrete situations by developing a taxonomy of human/building interactions. Written in engaging prose for students of architecture, interiors and urban design, as well as practicing professionals, Sarah Robinson offers richly illustrated practical examples for a new generation of designers.

Author : G. Buzsáki
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199828237
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rhythms of the Brain written by G. Buzsáki and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of mechanisms in the brain that allow complicated things to happen in a coordinated fashion have produced some of the most spectacular discoveries in neuroscience. This book provides eloquent support for the idea that spontaneous neuron activity, far from being mere noise, is actually the source of our cognitive abilities. It takes a fresh look at the coevolution of structure and function in the mammalian brain, illustrating how self-emerged oscillatory timing is the brain's fundamental organizer of neuronal information. The small-world-like connectivity of the cerebral cortex allows for global computation on multiple spatial and temporal scales. The perpetual interactions among the multiple network oscillators keep cortical systems in a highly sensitive "metastable" state and provide energy-efficient synchronizing mechanisms via weak links. In a sequence of "cycles," György Buzsáki guides the reader from the physics of oscillations through neuronal assembly organization to complex cognitive processing and memory storage. His clear, fluid writing-accessible to any reader with some scientific knowledge-is supplemented by extensive footnotes and references that make it just as gratifying and instructive a read for the specialist. The coherent view of a single author who has been at the forefront of research in this exciting field, this volume is essential reading for anyone interested in our rapidly evolving understanding of the brain.

Author : Heinrich Hubsch
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 0892361999
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In What Style Should We Build? written by Heinrich Hubsch and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1996-07-11 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hubsch's argument that the technical progress and changed living habits of the nineteenth century rendered neoclassical principles antiquated is presented here along with responses to his essay by architects, historians, and critics over two decades.

Author : Sarah Robinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780981966717
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nesting written by Sarah Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasingly, technology seems to be de-materializing our world. Yet our ideas and experiences--both physical and cultural--remain fundamentally patterned by the complex material interplay of brain, body, and world. With support from pioneering research in the cognitive and neurosciences, Sarah Robinson combines philosophy, poetry, and personal narrative to offer a poignant study of the many ways in which our built environment shapes us as significantly as we have shaped it. Nesting: Body, Dwelling, Mind explores how our very being is sculpted by our interactions in an environment that we ourselves have fashioned, making us our own greatest artifact.

Author : Harry Francis Mallgrave
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118078675
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architect's Brain written by Harry Francis Mallgrave and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Architect's Brain: Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture is the first book to consider the relationship between the neurosciences and architecture, offering a compelling and provocative study in the field of architectural theory. Explores various moments of architectural thought over the last 500 years as a cognitive manifestation of philosophical, psychological, and physiological theory Looks at architectural thought through the lens of the remarkable insights of contemporary neuroscience, particularly as they have advanced within the last decade Demonstrates the neurological justification for some very timeless architectural ideas, from the multisensory nature of the architectural experience to the essential relationship of ambiguity and metaphor to creative thinking

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Publisher : Jovis Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783868594799
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neuroarchitecture written by and published by Jovis Verlag. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architectural spaces are anchors for our memory. We find our place in the room by means of our sensory perception; the brain makes use of surfaces and spatial systems in order to organize the world we live in. Taking this principle as a given, this volume tracks what happens when the results of recent neuroscientific research are applied to architectural practice. In this volume, architectural theorist Christoph Metzger analyzes buildings designed by Alvar Aalto, Sou Fujimoto, Hugo Häring, Philip Johnson, Hermann Muthesius, Juhani Pallasmaa, James Stirling, Frank Lloyd Wright and Peter Zumthor in order to develop criteria for a modern, human-focused architecture that builds on neuroscientific knowledge. Neuroarchitecture links neuroscience, perception theory and Gestalt psychology, as well as music, art and architecture, in a holistic approach that focuses on the laws of structure formation and the movement of the individual within architectural space.

Author : Christopher Alexander
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195024029
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Timeless Way of Building written by Christopher Alexander and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introductory volume to Alexander's other works, A Pattern of Language and The Oregon Experiment, explains concepts fundamental to his original approaches to the theory and application of architecture.