Cognitive Architecture: Designing for How We Respond to the Built Environment

ISBN-13: 9780367468590 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 228 str.

Ann Sussman; Justin B. Hollander

Opis

In this expanded second edition of Cognitive Architecture, the authors review new findings in psychology and neuroscience to help architects and planners better understand their clients as the sophisticated mammals they are, arriving in the world with built-in responses to the environment.

Spis treści

1. A New Foundation: Darwin, Biology, and Cognitive Science;  2. Edges Matter: Thigmotaxis (the ‘Wall-hugging’ Trait);  3. Patterns Matter: Faces and Spaces;  4. Shapes Carry Weight: Bilateral Symmetry, (Hierarchy), Curves, and Complexity;  5. Storytelling Is Key: We’re Wired for Narrative;  6. Nature Is Our Context: Biophilia and Biophilic Design;  7. Buildings, Biology + Biometrics: Collecting Empirical Data for Evidence-Based Design;  8. The Twenty-First-Century Paradigm Shift in Biology and Psychology Reframes Architecture + Its History