Three approaches to consciousness -- Neuroscience and the design of educational places -- Vision and light in architectural settings -- Memorials, sacred places, and memory -- Memory of places and spaces and the design of facilities for the aging -- Systems neuroscience and building systems applied to workplace design -- Methods and models for future research.
"This book is an informal, accessible guide to architecture for the layperson"--
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Awakening to Architecture -- What Is Architecture (and What Isn't) -- Firmitas: The Strength of Architecture -- Utilitas: The Usefulness of Architecture -- Venustas: The Beauty of Architecture.
Introduction -- Towards the archipelago : defining the political and the formal in architecture -- The geo-politics of the ideal villa : Andrea Palladio and the project of an anti-ideal city -- Instauratio urbis : Piranesi's Campo Marzio vs. Nolli's Nuova Pianta di Roma -- Architecture as a state of exception : Étienne-Louis Boullée's project for a metropolis -- The city within the city : Oswald Mathias Ungers, OMA, and the project of the city as archipelago.