The Architect’s Brain

<i>The Architect’s Brain: Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture</i> is the first book to consider the relationship between the neurosciences and architecture, offering a compelling and provocative study in the field of architectural theory. <ul> <li>Explores various moments of architectural thought over the last 500 years as a cognitive manifestation of philosophical, psychological, and physiological theory</li> <li> <div>Looks at architectural thought through the lens of the remarkable insights of contemporary neuroscience, particularly as they have advanced within the last decade</div> </li> <li> <div>Demonstrates the neurological justification for some very timeless architectural ideas, from the multisensory nature of the architectural experience to the essential relationship of ambiguity and metaphor to creative thinking</div> </li> </ul>