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• Title:Cognitive architecture : designing for how we respond to the built environment / Ann Sussman and Justin B. Hollander.
  
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• Author/Creator:Sussman, Ann, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Hollander, Justin B., author.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Routledge, 2015.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: NA2540 .S87 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Architecture--Psychological aspects.
  Space perception--Physiological aspects.
  
• Description:xviii, 193 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  
• Summary:In 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 that have evolved over millennia. The book outlines four main principles--Edges Matter, the fact people are a thigmotactic or a 'wall-hugging' species; Patterns Matter, how we are visually-oriented; Shapes Carry Weight, how our preference for bilateral symmetrical forms is biological; and finally, Storytelling is Key, how our narrative proclivities, unique to our species, play a role in successful place-making. The book takes an inside-out approach to design, arguing that the more we understand human behavior, the better we can design for it. The text suggests new ways to analyze current designs before they are built, allowing the designer to anticipate a user's future experience. More than one hundred photographs and drawings illustrate its key concepts. Six exercises and additional case studies suggest particular topics - from the significance of face-processing in the human brain to our fascination with fractals - for further study.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-187) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780415724685 (hardback)
  0415724686 (hardback)
  9780415724692 (paperback)
  0415724694 (paperback)
  9781315856964 (ebook)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. New Foundation: Darwin, Biology, and Cognitive Science
  2. Edges Matter: Thigmotaxis (the 'Wall-hugging' Trait)
  Case Studies: Palmer Square, Princeton, New Jersey
  Columbia, Maryland
  Main Street, Disneyland, Anaheim, California
  3. Patterns Matter: Faces and Spaces
  Case Study: Society Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  4. Shapes Carry Weight: Bilateral Symmetry, (Hierarchy), Curves, and Complexity
  Case Study: The Oval Office, The White House, Washington D. C.
  5. Storytelling is Key: We're Wired for Narrative
  Case Studies: Villa Lante, Bagnaia, Italy
  Kelley's Corner, Acton, Massachusetts
  6. Nature is our Context: Biophilia and Biophilic Design.