Architecture and Embodiment The Implications of the New Sciences and Humanities for Design

Name: Architecture and Embodiment The Implications of the New Sciences and Humanities for Design
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ISBN: 9780415810203

ISBN-10: 0415810205

ISBN-13: 9780415810203

Edition: 2013

Authors: Harry Francis Mallgrave

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In recent years we have seen a number of dramatic discoveries within the biological and related sciences. Traditional arguments such as "nature versus nurture" are rapidly disappearing because of the realization that just as we are affecting our environments, so too do these altered environments restructure our cognitive abilities and outlooks. If the biological and technological breakthroughs are promising benefits such as extended life expectancies, these same discoveries also have the potential to improve in significant ways the quality of our built environments. This poses a compelling challenge to conventional architectural theory...This is the first book to consider these new…

Book details

List price: $42.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 2/26/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of illustrations


List of abbreviations


Introduction



Beauty


Darwin's haunting


Bowerbirds and mating habits


Neuroaesthetics


The human brain


The visual brain


The hedonic circuit



The culture of architecture


Images and words


Radical embodiment


Brain plasticity and enculturation


Cultural change


The psychological model of cognitive evolution


The cultural model of cognitive evolution


The culture of architecture



Emotion


The fractious brain


Later stages of visual processing


Feelings and emotions


Panksepp and Damasio


Feelings and emotions in architecture



Experiencing architecture


Theories of empathy


The empathic Bauhaus


Embodied simulation



Play, rituals, and other artistic things


On the origin of art


The play-instinct


Human evolution


From Darwin to Dissanayake


Epilogue: some concluding remarks


Index