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When brains meet buildings / Michael A. Arbib. [electronic resource]

By: Series: Oxford medicine onlinePublisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021Description: 1 online resource (696 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)Content type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780190060985 (ebook) :
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 720.1 23
LOC classification:
  • NA2540
Online resources: Summary: After decades of research on minds and brains and a decade of conversations with architects, Michael Arbib presents this book 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 analysing 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.
Holdings
Item type Home library Class number URL Status Date due Barcode
E-book University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay - Furness NHS Library Link to resource Not for loan
E-book University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay - Lancaster NHS Library Link to resource Not for loan

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

After decades of research on minds and brains and a decade of conversations with architects, Michael Arbib presents this book 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 analysing 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.

Specialized.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 2, 2021).