MIND IN ARCHITECTURE - NEUROSCIENCE EMBODIMENT ANF THE FUTURE OF DESIGN

Skrevet af PALLASMAA / ROBINSON

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 stands to reason that research in the life
sciences, particularly neuroscience, can offer compelling insights into
the ways our buildings shape our interactions with the world. This
expanded understanding can help architects design buildings that support
both mind and body. In Mind in Architecture, leading thinkers from
architecture and other disciplines, including neuroscience, cognitive
science, psychiatry, and philosophy, explore what architecture and
neuroscience can learn from each other. They offer historical context,
examine the implications for current architectural practice and
education, and imagine a neuroscientifically informed architecture of
the future. Architecture is late in discovering the richness of
neuroscientific research. As scientists were finding evidence for the
bodily basis of mind and meaning, architecture was caught up in
convoluted cerebral games that denied emotional and bodily reality
altogether. This volume maps the extraordinary opportunity that
engagement with cutting-edge neuroscience offers present-day architects.
ContributorsThomas D. Albright, Michael Arbib, John Paul Eberhard,
Melissa Farling, Vittorio Gallese, Alessandro Gattara, Mark L. Johnson,
Harry Francis Mallgrave, Iain McGilchrist, Juhani Pallasmaa, Alberto
Perez-Gomez, Sarah Robinson