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In Cognitive Architecture, the authors review new findings in psychology and neuroscience to help architects and planners better understand their clients as the sophisticated mammals they are, arriving in the world with built-in responses to the environment that have evolved over millennia.The book outlines four main principles---Edges Matter, the fact people are a thigmotactic or a 'wall-hugging' species; Patterns Matter, how we are visually-oriented; Shapes Carry Weight, how our preference for bilateral symmetrical forms is biological; and finally, Storytelling is Key, how our narrative proclivities, unique to our species, play a role in successful place-making. The book takes an inside-out approach to design, arguing that the more we understand human behavior, the better we can design for it. The text suggests new ways to analyze current designs before they are built, allowing the designer to anticipate a user's future experience. More than one hundred photographs and drawings illustrate its key concepts. Six exercises and additional case studies suggest particular topics - from the significance of face-processing in the human brain to our fascination with fractals - for further study.

architecture [discipline] --- space perception --- Architecture --- Affective and dynamic functions

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This ambitious book investigates a major yet underexplored nexus of themes in Roman cultural history: the evolving tropes of enclosure, retreat and compressed space within expanding, potentially borderless empire. In Roman writers' exploration of real and symbolic enclosures - caves, corners, villas, bathhouses, the 'prison' of the human body itself - we see the aesthetic, philosophical and political intersecting in fascinating ways, as the machine of empire is recast in tighter and tighter shapes. Victoria Rimell brings ideas and methods from literary theory, cultural studies and philosophy to bear on an extraordinary range of ancient texts rarely studied in juxtaposition, from Horace's Odes, Virgil's Aeneid and Ovid's Ibis, to Seneca's Letters, Statius' Achilleid and Tacitus' Annals. A series of epilogues puts these texts in conceptual dialogue with our own contemporary art world, and emphasizes the role Rome's imagination has played in the history of Western thinking about space, security and dwelling.

Latin poetry --- Space (Architecture) in literature. --- Space perception in literature. --- Literature and society --- History and criticism.

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Arising from the philosophical conviction that our sense of space plays a direct role in our apprehension and construction of reality (both factual and fictional), this book investigates how conceptions of postmodern space have transformed the history of the impossible in literature. Deeply influenced by the work of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar, there has been an unprecedented rise in the number of fantastic texts in which the impossible is bound to space - space not as scene of action but as impossible element performing a fantastic transgression within the storyworld. This book conce.

space perception --- Thematology --- architecture [discipline] --- Architecture --- Space (Architecture) in literature. --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Fantastic, The, in literature. --- Geographical perception in literature. --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY --- Postmodernism (Literature). --- Literary.

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Cartography --- Maps --- Cartographers --- Social sciences --- Cartographie --- Cartes géographiques --- Cartographes --- Sciences sociales --- Symbols --- Symboles --- Perception spatiale --- Space perception --- Innovations --- Technological innovations --- Innovations technologiques --- Cartes géographiques --- Cartographie. --- Sciences sociales. --- Perception spatiale. --- Innovations technologiques. --- Technological innovations. --- Innovation.

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Unter dem Schlagwort des spatial turn erlebt 'Raum' gegenwärtig eine ungeahnte Renaissance in der Geschichtswissenschaft. Was dort schnell zur Mode geworden ist, beschäftigt andere Disziplinen indes schon seit langem. Der interdisziplinär angelegte Band bereitet daher Theorie- und Wissensangebote aus verschiedenen Nachbardisziplinen für historiographische Zwecke auf und lotet zugleich anhand von Fallstudien das Verhältnis von Raum und Kommunikation im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert aus. Dabei steht nichts weniger als die Eignung von Raum als Zentralkategorie für eine neu zu konzipierende Kommunikationsgeschichte zur Disposition. »All jenen, die sich für eine fruchtbare Verbindung von Geschichte und Geopraphie interessieren, sei dieser Sammelband wärmstens empfohlen.« Riccardo Bavaj, Westfälische Forschungen, 57 (2007) »So liegt hier ein Buch vor, das es auf faszinierende Weise schafft, den Raumbegriff davor zu bewahren substanzlose Modeerscheinung zu sein und zeigt, wie viele überaus spannende und wichtige neue Fragen unentdeckt in oft betrachteten Themen warten und durch eine Justierung des Blickwinkels sichtbar werden. Ein großes, ein wichtiges Buch.« Christian Schwarzenegger, medien & zeit, 3 (2005) »Der Sammelband ist ein weiterer eindringlicher Aufruf, Raum als historische Kategorie nun endlich ernsthaft in die Praxis einzubinden [...]. Es ist vorbildlich, wie die Beiträge die sukzessive Selbstzweckwerdung beider Ordnungen während der ›massenmedialen Sattelzeit‹ zwischen 1880 und 1960 herausstellen und dabei betont auf Interdisziplinarität setzen. Man kann nur hoffen, daß dieser innovative Zugang nicht erneut auf taube Ohren stößt.« Roland Cvetkovski, Das Historisch-Politische Buch, 54/5 (2006) »Der Band gehört [...] zu den außergewöhnlichen und herausragenden Publikationen, von denen der aktuelle Raumdiskurs leider nicht sehr viele zu bieten hat.« Ulrike Jureit, H-Soz-u-Kult, 09.03.2006 Besprochen in: Literaturen, 11 (2005)

Cultural studies --- Cultural History. --- Geography. --- History of the 19th Century. --- History of the 20th Century. --- History. --- Media. --- Communication --- Communication. --- Kommunikation. --- Kommunikationstheorie. --- Public spaces --- Raum. --- Space and time --- Space perception --- Space perception. --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- Geschichte 1800-2000. --- Geschichte; Raum; Kommunikation; Medien; Geographie; Kulturgeschichte; Geschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts; Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts; Geschichtswissenschaft; Space; Media; Geography; Cultural History; History of the 19th Century; History of the 20th Century; History