Beauty, Neuroscience & Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beauty, Neuroscience & Architecture write by Donald H. Ruggles. This book was released on 2017. Beauty, Neuroscience & Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "For centuries, men and women have sought to express beauty in architecture and art. But, it is only recently that neuroscience has helped determine how and why beauty plays such an important role in our lives. Founded on a series of lectures architect Donald H. Ruggles has given over the past ten years, Beauty, Neuroscience and Architecture: Timeless Patterns and Their Impact on Our Well-Being postulates that beauty can and does make a vital difference in our lives, including improving many aspects of our health. In this volume, Ruggles suggests that a new, urgent effort is needed to refocus the direction of architecture and art to include the quality of beauty as a fundamental, overarching theme in two of humanity's most important fields of endeavor--the built and artistic environments."--Provided by the publisher.
Feeling Beauty
Feeling Beauty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Feeling Beauty write by G. Gabrielle Starr. This book was released on 2013-07-19. Feeling Beauty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A theory of the neural bases of aesthetic experience across the arts, which draws on the tools of both cognitive neuroscience and traditional humanist inquiry. In Feeling Beauty, G. Gabrielle Starr argues that understanding the neural underpinnings of aesthetic experience can reshape our conceptions of aesthetics and the arts. Drawing on the tools of both cognitive neuroscience and traditional humanist inquiry, Starr shows that neuroaesthetics offers a new model for understanding the dynamic and changing features of aesthetic life, the relationships among the arts, and how individual differences in aesthetic judgment shape the varieties of aesthetic experience. Starr, a scholar of the humanities and a researcher in the neuroscience of aesthetics, proposes that aesthetic experience relies on a distributed neural architecture—a set of brain areas involved in emotion, perception, imagery, memory, and language. More important, it emerges from networked interactions, intricately connected and coordinated brain systems that together form a flexible architecture enabling us to develop new arts and to see the world around us differently. Focusing on the "sister arts" of poetry, painting, and music, Starr builds and tests a neural model of aesthetic experience valid across all the arts. Asking why works that address different senses using different means seem to produce the same set of feelings, she examines particular works of art in a range of media, including a poem by Keats, a painting by van Gogh, a sculpture by Bernini, and Beethoven's Diabelli Variations. Starr's innovative, interdisciplinary analysis is true to the complexities of both the physical instantiation of aesthetics and the realities of artistic representation.
Urban Experience and Design
Urban Experience and Design - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urban Experience and Design write by Justin B. Hollander. This book was released on 2020-10-15. Urban Experience and Design available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Embracing a biological and evolutionary perspective to explain the human experience of place, Urban Experience and Design explores how cognitive science and biometric tools provide an evidence-based foundation for architecture and planning. Aiming to promote the creation of a healthier and happier public realm, this book describes how unconscious responses to stimuli, outside our conscious awareness, direct our experience of the built environment and govern human behavior in our surroundings. This collection contains 15 chapters, including contributions from researchers in the US, the UK, the Netherlands, France and Iran. Addressing topics such as the impact of eye-tracking analysis and seeing beauty and empathy within buildings, Urban Experience and Design encourages us to reframe our understanding of design, including the narrative of how modern architecture and planning came to be in the first place. This volume invites students, academics and scholars to see how cognitive science and biometric findings give us remarkable 21st-century metrics for evaluating and improving designs, even before they are built.
Brain Landscape The Coexistence of Neuroscience and Architecture
Brain Landscape The Coexistence of Neuroscience and Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brain Landscape The Coexistence of Neuroscience and Architecture write by John P. Eberhard. This book was released on 2009. Brain Landscape The Coexistence of Neuroscience and Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Brain Landscape: The Coexistence of Neuroscience and Architecture is the first book to serve as an intellectual bridge between architectural practice and neuroscience research. John P. Eberhard, founding President of the non-profit Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture, argues that increased funding, and the ability to think beyond the norm, will lead to a better understanding of how scientific research can change how we design, illuminate, and build spaces. Inversely, he posits that by better understanding the effects that buildings and places have on us, and our mental state, the better we may be able to understand how the human brain works. This book is devoted to describing architectural design criteria for schools, offices, laboratories, memorials, churches, and facilities for the aging, and then posing hypotheses about human experiences in such settings.
Brain, Beauty, and Art
Brain, Beauty, and Art - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brain, Beauty, and Art write by Anjan Chatterjee. This book was released on 2021-11-26. Brain, Beauty, and Art available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Frameworks -- Beauty -- Art -- Music -- Dance -- Architecture.
