Contagion Through Culture
As any skilled host or hostess knows, the success of the dinner party often hinges on the atmosphere of the setting. The setting not only shelters the table but influences the course, content, and mood of the conversations that happen around it. Wright’s desert masterpiece is a case in point. The disciplines of neuroscience and architecture intersect in their 10318_000b.indd 5 4/10/15 1:26 PM 6 SARAH ROBINSON understanding of and obligation to their subject: the embodied human being, a being who can exist only in relationship; relationship to the places we inhabit, to each other, to the world. Architectural settings have the capacity to foster, weaken, or destroy these relationships. Both the neuroscientists involved in the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture who work at Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute and the students who study at Taliesin are aware of this interdependence. That weekend in the desert was a point of departure, a catalyst that cracked open a few new windows and opened others wide enough to knock the corner post out of the wall. Momentum has since gathered, and so have the contributions to this work. Here, practitioners from such disciplines as psychiatry, neuroscience, physiology, philosophy, cognitive science, architectural history, and architectural practice meet not only to explore what neuroscience and architecture can learn from each other: they situate the dialogue in historic context; they examine the implications for current practice and in reimagining architectural education; they dream the shape of the future. What emerge here are design criteria that have been forged over eons of evolution on this planet—whose imperatives are neither arbitrary nor negotiable. Attention is not narrowed in algorithms, signifiers, and particles, but directed toward the emergent, the affective, the sensual, the gestural and kinesthetic factors that pattern human perception and experience. [Mind in Arch, 5-6]
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