Brain Landscape: The Coexistence of Neuroscience and Architecture - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195331729 ISBN 13: 9780195331721

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Brain Landscape: The Coexistence of Neuroscience and Architecture is the first book to serve as an intellectual bridge between architectural practice and neuroscience research. John P. Eberhard, founding President of the non-profit Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture, argues that increased funding, and the ability to think beyond the norm, will lead to a better understanding of how scientific research can change how we design, illuminate, and build spaces. Inversely, he posits that by better understanding the effects that buildings and places have on us, and our mental state, the better we may be able to understand how the human brain works. This book is devoted to describing architectural design criteria for schools, offices, laboratories, memorials, churches, and facilities for the aging, and then posing hypotheses about human experiences in such settings.

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Review

An outstanding new book, Brain Landscape , argues that the time is ripe to develop paradigms that deeply integrate neuroscientific insights into architectural design practice and create classrooms that impact the cognitive processes of children, hospital rooms that impact the recovery rate of patients and work environments that improve white collar productivity as well as other spaces that favorably impact the brain.

The book is a treasure trove for the cognitive designer. The author, John Eberhard, provides grand vision....As well as a number of well-grounded hypotheses that are specific enough to guide design work..."--As reviewed on the blog Cognitive Design

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0195331729
• ISBN 13: 9780195331721
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 259
• Editor: Eberhard John P.