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Architecture and Neuroscience: Designing for How the Brain Responds to the Built Environment

Morabito, Giovanni V
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1460729866

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2016, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
Architects have long been uncertain about how the spaces and buildings they design affect the people who inhabit these environments on a neurological level. Regardless of this, mankind has long been the biological byproduct of our environmental context and the spaces we inhabit throughout our lives. Fred H. Gage, professor and Research Chair on Age-Related Neurodegenerative Diseases at the Laboratory of Genetics of the Salk Institute, wrote the following in a forward to John P. Eberhard’s book Brain Landscape: The Coexistence of Neuroscience and Architecture: "I contend that architectural design can change our brains and behavior. The structures in the environment?the houses we live in, the areas we play in, the buildings we work in?affect our brains and our brains affect our behavior. By designing the structures we live in, architects are affecting our brains. The different spaces in which we live and work are changing our brain structures and our behaviors, and this has been going on for a long time." In an era rich with expansive knowledge into the inner working of our brains and how they continuously develop, the architects of today are challenged to venture deeper in their understanding of design impact on the mind and the resultant development of their fellow man. By harnessing the knowledge of how architecture influences neurons of the brain, future architects can employ a more sophisticated set of design tools to ensure that intended design outcomes result from their work.
William Williams, M.Arch. (Committee Chair)
Edson Cabalfin, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
111 p.
Architecture
Architecture and Neuroscience; Environmental Cognition; Neuroplasticity; Neuroscience and Design; Mind Mapping; Neuromorphic Architecture

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  • Morabito, G. V. (2016). Architecture and Neuroscience: Designing for How the Brain Responds to the Built Environment [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1460729866

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Morabito, Giovanni. Architecture and Neuroscience: Designing for How the Brain Responds to the Built Environment. 2016. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1460729866.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Morabito, Giovanni. "Architecture and Neuroscience: Designing for How the Brain Responds to the Built Environment." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1460729866

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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