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La mente in architettura

Neuroscienze, incarnazione e il futuro del design
  • Edited by:
  • Sarah Robinson,
  • Juhani Pallasmaa,
  • Matteo Zambelli,

Although we spend more than ninety percent of our lives inside buildings, we understand very little about how the built environment affects our behavior, thoughts, emotions, and well-being. We are biological beings whose senses and neural systems have developed over millions of years; it stands to reason that research in the life sciences, particularly neuroscience, can offer compelling insights into the ways our buildings shape our interactions with the world. In Mind in Architecture, leading thinkers from architecture and other disciplines, including neuroscience, cognitive science, psychiatry, and philosophy, explore what architecture and neuroscience can learn from each other.

  • Keywords:
  • senses,
  • apticity,
  • psychology of perception,
  • mirror neurons,
  • meaning in architecture,
  • embodied simulation,
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Juhani Pallasmaa

Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Matteo Zambelli

University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-9709-0828

Sarah Robinson is a practicing architect who studied philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madi-son and the University of Fribourg in Switzerland before attending the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, where she earned her M.Arch and later served as the founding chair of the Board of Governors. She is the author of Nesting: Body, Dwelling, Mind, and Architecture is a Verb. She lives in Pavia, Italy.

Juhani Pallasmaa, architectural theorist and practitioner, is an Honorary Member of SAFA Society of Finnish Architects, AIA American Institute of Architects, and RIBA Royal British Institute of Architects, and he has received numerous Honorary Doctorates in Architecture, Technology and the Arts. The former director of both the Finnish Museum of Architecture and the Department of Architecture at Helsinki University of Technology, he has authored over 30 books including The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses, The Thinking Hand, The Embodied Image, and Inseminations. Seeds for Architectural Thought.
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La mente in architettura

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Neuroscienze, incarnazione e il futuro del design

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Sarah Robinson, Juhani Pallasmaa, Matteo Zambelli

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