Applying the insights of neuroscience to architecture has the potential to deliver buildings and spaces that measurably promote well-being and create healthier or more effective environments for specific activities. There is, however, a risk that neuroarchitecture will become just another buzzword, a passing architectural fashion or a marketing exercise just as 'eco', 'green' and 'sustainable' have become. This issue of AD offers the reader an alternative to 'neuro' sound-bites and exposes them to the thinking which led to the design of the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour (SWC), a pioneering medical research facility designed to foster collaboration between researchers. Multi award winning, the SWC was one of the first buildings in the world designed to take into account what has been learned about how the work space affects behaviour and is a highly effective building in which to work. Readers will gain a richer, deeper insight into the complex mental and existential aspects of architecture, design, and our many senses, how they interact and might interact in the future, and how that knowledge can be used to design more effective buildings and built environments.
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| Introduction Why Do People Feel More Comfortable in One Space than Another? |
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Mind in Life in Architecture A Conversation with Architectural Historian Alberto Perez-Gomez |
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Stage Left, Stage Right-The Heavens & Hell Embodied Meaning & Memory in Performance |
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Resonant Bodies in Immersive Space |
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Losing Myself Designing for People with Dementia |
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Designing for the Multisensory Mind |
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Mind Landscapes Navigation, Habitat and Imagination |
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Light Regulation of Circadian Rhythms Fact and Fiction and Design Implications |
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Disembodied Worlds - Body, Brain and Architecture in the Digital Age A Conversation with Psychobiologist Vittorio Gallese |
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Museums and the Embodied Mind Sensory Engagement with Artworks and Architecture |
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Neuroscience Does Design What the Brain's Architecture Can Teach Architects |
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Plant Consciousness Towards an Architecture of Expanded Kinship |
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Visual Neuroscience for Architecture Seeking a New Evidence-Based Approach to Design |
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Wicked Neuroarchitecture Reciprocity, Shapeshifting Problems and a Case for Embodied Knowledge |
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From Another Perspective Architect Manque |
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Ian Ritchie studied architecture in Liverpool and London, and after working with Norman Foster (1972-76) spent two years in France designing and self-constructing Fluy House. While working at Arup's Lightweight Structures Group (1978-81) he founded Chrysalis Architects (1979-81) and then in 1981 he founded Ian Ritchie Architects (iRAL) in London and co-founded the design engineering firm Rice Francis Ritchie (RFR) in Paris. Ian is a Royal Academician and elected member of the Akademie der Künste. In 2000 he was awarded a CBE and received the French Academie d'Architecture Grand Silver Medal for Innovation. He regularly chairs international juries, including the RIBA Stirling Prize, Scotland's RIAS Doolan Award, Czech Grand Prix and Les Jeunes Albums France, and was a member of the 2017 World Architecture Festivals Super Jury in Berlin. He frequently lectures on architecture, urbanism, regeneration and values, light, neuroarchitecture, glass technology and innovation. He has written several books, published poetry, and his art is held in several international galleries and museums.
