Description

Architectural spaces are anchors for our memory. We find
our place in the room by means of our sensory perception; the brain
makes use of surfaces and spatial systems in order to store and organize
the world we live in. The understanding of this principle forms the
basis for the transfer of the results of recent neuroscientific research
to architectural practice, as discussed in this book.

Neuroarchitecture links neuroscience, perception theory, and Gestalt
psychology, as well as music, art, and architecture, into a holistic
approach that focuses on the laws of structure formation and the
movement of the individual within the architectural space. Christoph
Metzger, the author of Building for Dementia and Architecture and
Resonance, analyses buildings designed by Alvar Aalto, Sou Fujimoto,
Hugo H ring, Philip Johnson, Hermann Muthesius, Juhani Pallasmaa, James
Stirling, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Peter Zumthor in the context of the
Amsterdam School of Architecture and their criticism of functionalism in
order to develop bases and criteria for a modern, people-related
architecture that is indebted to neuroscientific knowledge.