1. Auflage - Januar 2010
97,90 Euro
2010. 288 Seiten, Hardcover
ISBN-10: 1-4051-9585-1
ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-9585-0 - John Wiley & Sons

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Kurzbeschreibung
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. What emerges is a surprising neurological justification for some very timeless architectural ideas. The author argues that architecture is an emotional and perceptual act grounded in biological values. Not since Richard Neutra's Survival Through Design has such a provocative thesis been put forth in the field of architectural theory.

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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.