When Brains Meet Buildings

After decades of research on minds and brains and a decade of conversations with architects Michael Arbib presents <em>When Brains Meet Buildings</em> as an invitation to the science behind architecture richly illustrated with buildings both famous and domestic. As he converses with the reader he<br>presents action-oriented perception memory and imagination as well as atmosphere aesthetics and emotion as keys to analyzing the experience and design of architecture. He also explores what it might mean for buildings to have brains and illuminates all this with an appreciation of the<br>biological and cultural evolution that supports the diverse modes of human living that we know today. <p/>These conversations will not only raise the level of interaction between architecture and neuroscience but by explaining the world of each group to the other will also engage all readers who share a fascination with both the brains within them and the buildings around them. <p/>Michael Arbib is a pioneer in the interdisciplinary study of computers and brains and has long studied brain mechanisms underlying the visual control of action. His expertise makes him a unique authority on the intersection of architecture and neuroscience.<br>