Tuning Architecture with Humans: Neuroscience Applied to Architectural Design: Neuroscience boosters architects' comprehension of people needs - Softcover

Ruzzon, Davide

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8869774007 ISBN 13: 9788869774003

Publisher: Mimesis International, 2022

Synopsis

The features of humankind’s interaction with the natural enrivonment have, over the course of evolution, slowly consolidated specific models of behavior. In the social dimension, these primitive schemes of interaction between the body and the enviroment have generated the blooming of consciousness and gradually also of language. Neuroscience sheds light on the mechanism by which the artifical envionrnment – i.e. architecture – has represented a crucial moment of change in improving human beings’ cognitive capacities. This fact situates the beginning of architecture in an even more distant past. There are certain natural situations which, taken together with humankind’s actions and body, in the phase of homo erectus, which can therefore be considered the very first architecture. In particular, the technology and architecture which humankind has developed over the last two centuries, along with cultural and social transformations, have modified the environment without a sufficient awareness of the fundamental role played by nature in cognitive evolution. Today’s cities, and the entirety of our environmental conditions, are nothing other than the mirror image of this fogetting.

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About the Author

Davide Ruzzon is an architect, director of the Master of Science Neuroscience Applied to the Architectural Design, NAAD at the University of Architecture Iuav in Venice. He also founded TUNED, within the Italian architectural firm Lombardini22, a branch devoted to the application of the scientific knowledge to the design, and is the editor of the magazine "Intertwining", born in Italy to nourish the debate among architecture, philosophy, and sciences.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mimesis International
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8869774007
• ISBN 13: 9788869774003
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 266