Mind in Architecture: Neuroscience, Embodiment, and the Future of Design

by Sarah Robinson and Juhani Pallasmaa

Book Overview

Leading neuroscientists and architects explore how the built environment affects our behavior, thoughts, emotions, and well-being.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026253360X
• ISBN13: 9780262533607
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 8.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher