Mind in Architecture by Sarah Robinson - ISBN: 9780262533607
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Leading neuroscientists and architects explore how the built environment affects our behavior, thoughts, emotions, and well-being.

Mind in Architecture

Neuroscience, Embodiment, and the Future of Design

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    270 pages

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    3 March 2017

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Summary

Leading neuroscientists and architects explore how the built environment affects our behavior, thoughts, emotions, and well-being.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…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262533607
ISBN-10:026253360X
Author:Sarah Robinson, Juhani Pallasmaa
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:270
Release Date:3 March 2017
Weight:674g
Dimensions:229mm x 178mm x 14mm
Series:Mind in Architecture
About The Author

Sarah Robinson

Sarah Robinson is a practicing architect and the author of Nesting- Body, Dwelling, Mind.Juhani Pallasmaa, architect, educator, and writer, is the author of more than thirty books, including The Eyes of the Skin- Architecture and the Senses. He is the former director of both the Finnish Museum of Architecture and the Department of Architecture at Helsinki University of Technology.Juhani Pallasmaa, architect, educator, and writer, is the author of more than thirty books, including The Eyes of the Skin- Architecture and the Senses. He is the former director of both the Finnish Museum of Architecture and the Department of Architecture at Helsinki University of Technology.Michael Arbib has played a leading role at the interface of neuroscience and computer science ever since his first book, Brains, Machines, and Mathematics. From Neuron to Cognition provides a worthy pedagogical sequel to his widely acclaimed Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks. After thirty years at University of Southern California he is now pursuing interests in “how the brain got language” and “neuroscience for architecture” in San Diego.Sarah Robinson is a practicing architect and the author of Nesting- Body, Dwelling, Mind.Alberto Perez G mez directs the History and Theory of Architecture Program at McGill University, where he is Saidye Rosner Bronfman Professor of the History of Architecture. He is the author of Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science, Built upon Love- Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics (both published by the MIT Press), and other books.

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