Harry Francis Mallgrave 
The Architect’s Brain [EPUB ebook] 
Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture

Introduction
Part One: Historical Essays
1. The Humanist Brain (Alberti, Vitruvius, and Leonardo).
2. The Enlightened Brain (Perrault, Laugier, and Le Roy).
3. The Sensational Brain (Burke, Price, and Knight).
4. The Transcendental Brain (Kant and Schopenhauer).
5. The Animate Brain (Schinkel, Bötticher, and Semper).
6. The Empathetic Brain (Vischer, Wölfflin, and Göller).
7. The Gestalt Brain (The Dynamics of the Sensory Field).
8. The Neurological Brain (Hayek, Hebb, and Neutra).
9. The Phenomenal Brain (Merleau-Ponty, Rasmussen, and Pallasmaa).
Part Two: Neuroscience and Architecture.
10. Anatomy: Architecture of the Brain.
11. Ambiguity: Architecture of Vision.
12. Metaphor: Architecture of Embodiment.
13. Hapticity: Architecture of the Senses.
14. Epilogue: The Architect’s Brain.
Endnotes.
Bibliography.
Index.

Harry Francis Mallgrave is a professor of architecture
at Illinois Institute of Technology, and has enjoyed a
distinguished career as an award-winning scholar, translator, and
architect. His most recent publications include Modern
Architectural Theory: A Historical Survey, 1673-1968, and the
two-volume Architectural Theory: An Anthology from Vitruvius to
2005 (Wiley-Blackwell 2008). His forthcoming
Introduction to Architectual Theory will be published by
Wiley-Blackwell in 2010.