John P. Eberhard, Latrobe Fellow and founding president of the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture artfully considers the question: What does neuroscience have to do with architecture? in this groundbreaking book Architecture and the Brain: A New Knowledge Base from Neuroscience. Eberhard asks whether it would not be useful to have solid evidence based on fundamental studies to back up the intuitions of the architect, valuable evidence to convince clients to make good design decisions on behalf of the eventual users. Architecture and the Brain explores this utility and the relationship of neuroscience and architecture in a clear, compelling, easily accessible introduction for architects and anyone interested in why, and how, good design evokes emotional response. A stimulant to the neuroscientific community, architects, and the general reader, this book can serve as the base for exploratory studies on the interface between architectural settings and human experiences and provide insight into issues not previously contemplated.
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Science is not just about enlightenment... It also has the potential to bear fruit. No revolution can truly be said to have occurred until the knowledge it has delivered is put to use in some practical way. John Eberhard was one of the first to envisage how neuroscientific findings could inform and enrich his own profession, architecture. --Rita Carter, Foreword Architecture and the Brain
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do not buy this book,
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I was extremely disapointed in the scholarly quality and depth of this work, as evidenced by its minimal bibliography. Since I had devoted a chapter of my PhD thesis to the neurological perception of the Classical city in the Late Roman East, I was anticipating a substantial supporting source that connects up-to-date neurological studies to the perception of architectural space and form. Instead there is very little, but a few cursery paragraphs on architecture itself. The chapters, despite possessing drawings of varied architectural forms (cover art is pretty, page art is poor), primarily give a very basic overview of the brain systems and sensory functions that seem to leave it up to the reader to make the architectural leap beyond the one page, six-point discussion under the subtitle 'What Does this Have to Do with Architecture (p. 47)? Afterward I was left asking the same question. Further, the concluding remarks by Dr. Eric R. Kandel does not speak in anyway directly with architecture and seems as disconnected as the text. There were enough substantial quotations along with the cover alcolade from Rita Carter ("Mapping the Mind") where I would have hoped that she had written it. This was too much money for the result. If I had not highlighted a few lines I would have returned this for a refund.
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A Very Basic Overview of Neuroscience for Architects,
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This review is from: Architecture and the Brain: A New Knowledge Base from Neuroscience (Paperback)
This book does not aim to explicitly tie together concepts of neuroscience and architecture (for that, see /Brain Landscape/). Rather, Eberhard simply outlines some of the more basic concepts of neuroscience. With that said, /Architecture and the Brain/ is a nice little overview, but I wonder whether an architect with no familiarity with biology or neuroscience will find it useful. Though Eberhard does in the end mention how neuroscience can inform architecture, this is not the overarching theme. I would ultimately recommend purchasing a neuroscience textbook if the topics discussed in /Architecture and the Brain/ are of interest to you.
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A Contribution to Architecture,
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This book is a pioneering effort to introduce architects to ways of improving the design of buildings by better understanding how and why users of buildings respond to colors, light, textures, and spaces. It explains the workings of the brain to stimuli by which individuals experience feelings of delight or awe or depression. The book describes the relatively new discipline of neuroscience and how architects can better understand the effects of their design decisions on their cliects, through collaboration with neuroscientists
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