When Brains Meet Buildings
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 22 October 2021
- ISBN 9780190060954
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages696 pages
- Size 239x162x33 mm
- Weight 1270 g
- Language English 156
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Short description:
Michael Arbib presents When Brains Meet Buildings as an invitation to the science behind architecture, richly illustrated with buildings both famous and domestic. As he converses with the reader, he presents action-oriented perception, memory, and imagination as well as atmosphere, aesthetics, and emotion as keys to analyzing the experience and design of architecture.
MoreLong description:
After decades of research on minds and brains and a decade of conversations with architects, Michael Arbib presents When Brains Meet Buildings as an invitation to the science behind architecture, richly illustrated with buildings both famous and domestic. As he converses with the reader, he presents action-oriented perception, memory, and imagination as well as atmosphere, aesthetics, and emotion as keys to analyzing the experience and design of architecture. He also explores what it might mean for buildings to have "brains" and illuminates all this with an appreciation of the biological and cultural evolution that supports the diverse modes of human living that we know today.
These conversations will not only raise the level of interaction between architecture and neuroscience but, by explaining the world of each group to the other, will also engage all readers who share a fascination with both the brains within them and the buildings around them.
Michael Arbib is a pioneer in the interdisciplinary study of computers and brains and has long studied brain mechanisms underlying the visual control of action. His expertise makes him a unique authority on the intersection of architecture and neuroscience.
Arbib covers brains and the environment, perspective on space, learning and memory, emotion, wayfinding, the architecture-ready brain, buildings with brains, and experience and design.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Brains in Bodies in the - Social, Built and Natural - Environment
1.1. Linking Physical and Mental and Construction
1.2. Framing the AN Conversation
1.3. How Brains Meet Buildings
1.4 The Many Levels of the Brain
1.5. A Key Debate: Is Neuroscience Relevant to Architecture?
Chapter 2. An Action-Oriented Perspective on Space and Affordances
2.1. In an Art Gallery: From Wayfinding to Contemplation
2.2. Affordances and Effectivities
2.3. The Thinking Hand
2.4. The Thinking Hand and Its Schemas
2.5. Schemas: Up to Society; Down to Neurons
2.6. The Thinking Hand and Its Brain
2.7. Design in Architecture and in Brain Modeling
Chapter 3. A Look at Vision, and a Touch More
3.1. Engineering and Architectural Aesthetics
3.2. Neural Circuits for Vision
3.3. Learning and Memory
3.4. VISIONS: Scene Perception as a Form of Construction
3.5. Aesthetic Judgement of Visual Form
3.6. Schemas Within and Beyond Vision
Chapter 4. Atmosphere, Affordances, and Emotion
4.1. Atmosphere Exemplified
4.2. Motivation, Emotion, and Brains
4.3. Atmosphere as a Non-Gibsonian Affordance
4.4. The Evocation of Atmosphere in Paintings
4.5. Seeking Neural Correlates of Environments Inducing Contemplative States
4.6. Experiences of Ultimacy
Chapter 5. From Empathy to Mirror Neurons and Back to Aesthetics
5.1. Empathy and Einf
