Authors on Architecture: When Brains Meet Buildings
SAH/SCC Zoom Program
Sunday, September 25, 2022
Join the SAH/SCC as we welcome Michael A. Arbib, author of When Brains Meet Buildings: A Conversation Between Neuroscience and Architecture (Oxford University Press, 2021). Arbib
will share the science behind architecture, illustrating his points with
buildings both famous and domestic.
Arbib, a pioneer in the interdisciplinary study of computers
and brains, has long studied brain mechanisms. He has also spent the last
decade in conversation with architects. This makes him a unique authority on
the intersection of architecture and neuroscience. He currently teaches at the University of California,
San Diego and is a Professor Emeritus, at USC.
In the
book, as Arbib converses with the reader, he 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 biological and cultural
evolution that supports the diverse modes of human living that we know today.
Authors on Architecture: When Brains Meet Buildings, Sunday,
September 25, 2022; 1:00 PM PST; $5; Zoom connection information sent upon
registration.
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