Architect's Brain: Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture PDF
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The Architect’s Brain Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture Harry Francis Mallgrave A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication 99778811440055119955885500__11__pprreettoocc..iinndddd iiiiii 99//2266//22000099 33::1199::3344 PPMM 99778811440055119955885500__11__pprreettoocc..iinndddd iiii 99//2266//22000099 33::1199::3344 PPMM The Architect’s Brain 99778811440055119955885500__11__pprreettoocc..iinndddd ii 99//2266//22000099 33::1199::3344 PPMM 99778811440055119955885500__11__pprreettoocc..iinndddd iiii 99//2266//22000099 33::1199::3344 PPMM The Architect’s Brain Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture Harry Francis Mallgrave A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication 99778811440055119955885500__11__pprreettoocc..iinndddd iiiiii 99//2266//22000099 33::1199::3344 PPMM This edition first published 2010 © 2010 Harry Francis Mallgrave Blackwell Publishing was acquired by John Wiley & Sons in February 2007. 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Set in 10.5/13 pt Galliard by SPi Publisher Services, Pondicherry, India Printed in Malaysia 1 2010 99778811440055119955885500__11__pprreettoocc..iinndddd iivv 99//2266//22000099 33::1199::3344 PPMM Contents List of Illustrations vii Introduction 1 Part I Historical Essays 7 1 The Humanist Brain: Alberti, Vitruvius, and Leonardo 9 2 The Enlightened Brain: Perrault, Laugier, and Le Roy 26 3 The Sensational Brain: Burke, Price, and Knight 41 4 The Transcendental Brain: Kant and Schopenhauer 53 5 The Animate Brain: Schinkel, Bötticher, and Semper 61 6 The Empathetic Brain: Vischer, Wölfflin, and Göller 76 7 The Gestalt Brain: The Dynamics of the Sensory Field 85 8 The Neurological Brain: Hayek, Hebb, and Neutra 98 9 The Phenomenal Brain: Merleau-Ponty, Rasmussen, and Pallasmaa 109 Part II Neuroscience and Architecture 123 10 Anatomy: Architecture of the Brain 125 11 Ambiguity: Architecture of Vision 139 12 Metaphor: Architecture of Embodiment 159 13 Hapticity: Architecture of the Senses 188 99778811440055119955885500__22__ttoocc..iinndddd vv 99//2266//22000099 33::1199::5500 PPMM vi Contents Epilogue: The Architect’s Brain 207 Endnotes 221 Bibliography 253 Index 267 99778811440055119955885500__22__ttoocc..iinndddd vvii 99//2266//22000099 33::1199::5500 PPMM Illustrations 1.1 After Francesco di Giorgio Martini, Opera di Architettura (c.1479–80) 18 1.2 Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man (c.1490) 21 1.3 Carlo Urbini (after Leonardo da Vinci), from the Codex Huygens 22 2.1 Francesco Borromini, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, begun in 1638 27 2.2 The Louvre, East Wing 31 2.3 Julien-David Le Roy, View of the Temple of Minerva (Parthenon) 38 3.1 John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor, Blenheim Palace 50 5.1 Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Altes Museum, Berlin (1823–30) 63 5.2 Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Berlin Architectural Academy (1831–6) 64 5.3 Carl Bötticher, plate from Die Tektonic der Hellenen (Potsdam, 1844–52) 67 5.4 Gottfriede Semper, Basket-weave capital 70 5.5 Gottfried Semper, Persian tubular column capital with Ionic volutes 71 5.6 Ionic capitals from the East porch of the Erechtheum 72 5.7 Gottfried Semper, Rusticated block from the Dresden Art Museum 73 7.1 Michelangelo, Dome of Saint Peters, Vatican (1546–64) 93 99778811440055119955885500__33__ppoossttttoocc..iinndddd vviiii 99//2266//22000099 33::2200::1188 PPMM
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