Table of Contents: The architect's brain

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The architect's brain neuroscience, creativity, and architecture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mallgrave, Harry Francis.
Format:	Electronic
Language:	English
Published:	Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Subjects:	Cognitive neuroscience. Architects. Architecture and philosophy. Architecture and science. Creative ability. SCIENCE > Cognitive Science. Electronic books.
Online Access:	View fulltext via EzAccess

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Historical essays
The humanist brain : Alberti, Vitruvius, and Leonardo
The enlightened brain : Perrault, Laugier, and Le Roy
The sensational brain : Burke, Price, and Knight
The transcendental brain : Kant and Schopenhauer
The animate brain : Schinkel, Bötticher, and Semper
The empathetic brain : Vischer, Wölfflin, and Göller
The gestalt brain : the dynamics of the sensory field
The neurological brain : Hayek, Hebb, and Neutra
The phenomenal brain : Merleau-Ponty, Rasmussen, and Pallasmaa
Neuroscience and architecture
Anatomy : architecture of the brain
Ambiguity : architecture of vision
Metaphor : architecture of embodiment
Hapticity : architecture of the senses
Epilogue: The architect's brain.