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.
About the Author
Michael A. Arbib University of California at San Diego, La Jolla Emeritus, University of Southern California
Reviews
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. * L. B. Allsopp, CHOICE *
For couple of decades there has been an attraction between neuroscience and architecture. However, the real interactions between the two disciplines have rarely been presented or discussed. Due to the internal complexities of architecture and its dialogical relation with life, the largely preconscious and embodied intuitions of the creative mind tend to escape scientific definition. Michael Arbib's exceptionally wide scientific background, combined with his deep interest in the arts and architecture, makes him well equipped to cross this gap. His current book is a devoted study of the neural basis of architecture and the applicability of this knowledge in the design of buildings, especially intelligent buildings, which are deliberately conceived as extensions of our neural capacities." - Juhani Pallasmaa, Architect HonSAFA, HonFAIA, IntFRIBA, Academician, International Academy of Architecture, Professor emeritus (Aalto University, Helsinki)
This book is one of the most valuable contributions, from a neuroscientific perspective, of the interplay between the architectural environment and human beings."- Davide Ruzzon, architect, Director and Founder of Neuroscience Applied to Architectural Design, NAAD Postgraduate Course, at the University Iuav Venice and POLI Design Milan
Book Information
ISBN 9780190060954
Author Michael A. Arbib
Format Hardback
Page Count 676
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 1286g
Dimensions(mm) 243mm * 160mm * 34mm
About the Author
Michael A. Arbib University of California at San Diego, La Jolla Emeritus, University of Southern California
Reviews
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. * L. B. Allsopp, CHOICE *
For couple of decades there has been an attraction between neuroscience and architecture. However, the real interactions between the two disciplines have rarely been presented or discussed. Due to the internal complexities of architecture and its dialogical relation with life, the largely preconscious and embodied intuitions of the creative mind tend to escape scientific definition. Michael Arbib's exceptionally wide scientific background, combined with his deep interest in the arts and architecture, makes him well equipped to cross this gap. His current book is a devoted study of the neural basis of architecture and the applicability of this knowledge in the design of buildings, especially intelligent buildings, which are deliberately conceived as extensions of our neural capacities." - Juhani Pallasmaa, Architect HonSAFA, HonFAIA, IntFRIBA, Academician, International Academy of Architecture, Professor emeritus (Aalto University, Helsinki)
This book is one of the most valuable contributions, from a neuroscientific perspective, of the interplay between the architectural environment and human beings."- Davide Ruzzon, architect, Director and Founder of Neuroscience Applied to Architectural Design, NAAD Postgraduate Course, at the University Iuav Venice and POLI Design Milan
Book Information
ISBN 9780190060954
Author Michael A. Arbib
Format Hardback
Page Count 676
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 1286g
Dimensions(mm) 243mm * 160mm * 34mm
