Mind in architecture : neuroscience, embodiment, and the future of design / edited by Sarah Robinson and Juhani Pallasmaa.

Mind in architecture : neuroscience, embodiment, and the future of design /

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"Although we spend more than ninety percent of our lives inside buildings, we understand very little about how the built environment affects our behavior, thoughts, emotions, and well-being. We are biological beings whose senses and neural systems have developed over millions of years; it stand...

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Corporate Author: Minding Design (Symposium) Scottsdale, Ariz.)
Other Authors: Robinson, Sarah (Architect) (Editor), Pallasmaa, Juhani (Editor)
Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Neurosciences in architecture > Congresses.
Architecture > Human factors > Congresses.
Architectural design > Psychological aspects > Congresses.
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction: Survival Through Design; 1 "Know Thyself": Or What Designers Can Learn From the Contemporary Biological Sciences; 2 The Embodied Meaning of Architecture; 3 Body, Mind, and Imagination: The Mental Essence of Architecture; 4 Toward a Neuroscience of the Design Process; 5 Tending to the World; 6 Architecture and Neuroscience: A Double Helix; 7 Nested Bodies; 8 Embodied Simulation, Aesthetics, and Architecture: An Experimental Aesthetical Approach; 9 From Intuition to Immersion: Architecture and Neuroscience; 10 Neuroscience for Architecture.
  • 11 Mood and Meaning in ArchitectureContributors; Figure Credits; Index.

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