Cognition and the Built Environment

ISBN-13: 9780367331917 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 190 str.

Ole Moystad

Opis

Cognition and the Built Environment argues that interacting with our built environment, as users and as architects, is a cognitive process. It claims that architecture, in its form and meaning is a basic, embodied level of human cognition.

 

Spis treści

Acknowledgements, Prologue Part I. Making Sense Chapter 1. Some Steps Towards Meaning Chapter 2. Umwelt Chapter 3. Place and Interpretant Chapter 4. Postscript to Making Sense Part II. The Field Chapter 5. 'City' as a Measure of Density Chapter 6. An Architecture of the Field Part III. The Object Chapter 7. The TAO of Architecture Chapter 8. Physics of Meaning and Form Chapter 9. An Architecture of the Object Part IV. The Work Chapter 10. Change Between Develoment and Catastrophe Chapter 11. Speed and Urban Development Chapter 12. A Topology of the Work of Architecture Epilogue, Index

O autorze

Ole Möystad defended his PhD on architecture and cognitive semiotics in 1994. He has pursued this topic through academic as well as professional work in Beirut, Oslo, Trondheim, Lisbon, Barcelona, Asmara, Xi’an, Delft and Brussels. He is Professor in the Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway, and head of The Urban Trigger Group.