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Beauty, Neuroscience, and Architecture - Timeless Patterns and Their Impact on Our Well-Being (Hardcover)
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Beauty, Neuroscience, and Architecture - Timeless Patterns and Their Impact on Our Well-Being (Hardcover)
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2019 Independent Publishers Book Awards (IPPY) Bronze Medal Award
winner! 2018 Robert & Judi Newman Award for Literature &
Journalism! For centuries, men and women have sought to express
beauty in architecture and art. But, it is only recently that
neuroscience has helped determine how and why beauty plays such an
important role in our lives. Founded on a series of lectures
architect Donald H. Ruggles has given over the past ten years,
Beauty, Neuroscience and Architecture: Timeless Patterns and Their
Impact on Our Well-Being postulates that beauty can and does make a
vital difference in our lives, including improving many aspects of
our health. In this volume, Ruggles suggests that a new, urgent
effort is needed to refocus the direction of architecture and art
to include the quality of beauty as a fundamental, overarching
theme in two of humanity's most important fields of endeavor - the
built and artistic environments. ""Since the beginning of time,""
Ruggles notes, people have ""looked for certain patterns and a
balance of space. . . . There is a deep-seated need for beauty and
when that need is filled, a sense of safety and comfort is
created."" In Beauty, Neuroscience and Architecture Ruggles draws
on more than fifty years of architectural experience to delve into
the forces behind the transformative emotion of beauty. Focusing on
new discoveries in the science of the mind and neuroscience, as
well as recent developments in fractal geometry theory,
microbiology, and psychology, Ruggles leads the reader on a journey
through architectural and art history to discover the importance of
patterns in our perception of beauty - and its emotional content.
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