THE DIVIDED BRAIN AND WAYS OF BUILDING THE WORLD: PARALLELS IN THE THOUGHT OF IAIN MCGILCHRIST AND CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER
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| Názov: | THE DIVIDED BRAIN AND WAYS OF BUILDING THE WORLD: PARALLELS IN THE THOUGHT OF IAIN MCGILCHRIST AND CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER |
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| Autori: | Ettlinger, Or |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, Vol 47, Iss 2 (2023) Journal of Architecture and Urbanism; Vol 47 No 2 (2023); 183–189 |
| Informácie o vydavateľovi: | Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, 2023. |
| Rok vydania: | 2023 |
| Predmety: | architecture, the nature of order, Christopher Alexander, neursocience, the master and his emissary, 11. Sustainability, Iain McGilchrist, Architecture, the matter with things, a pattern language, NA1-9428, 01 natural sciences, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Popis: | What might have led to the fundamental changes in the built environment during the 20th century? While factors such as postwar reconstruction, urbanization, industrialization, shifts in style, or socio-political changes are surely involved, there may be deeper influences that are associated with the structure and dynamics of the human brain. Iain McGilchrist’s hemisphere hypothesis proposes that the differences between the left and right hemispheres are not functional but embody opposing approaches to the world: the left sees an atomized world made of things to be controlled and manipulated for survival; the right sees an interconnected world of wholes with which it is deeply related. McGilchrist observes that in recent centuries, there has been an increasing shift in the West towards the left hemisphere’s approach. Christopher Alexander’s lifelong quest for wholeness in the built world resonates with McGilchrist’s observations as applied to the field of architecture. Alexander observed that today’s built environment is an expression of our civilization seeing the world as a giant mechanism made of parts rather than an indivisible whole. In response, Alexander developed design methods that approach the world as a unified whole and the building of new places as a further unfolding of that whole. |
| Druh dokumentu: | Article |
| Popis súboru: | application/pdf |
| ISSN: | 2029-7947 2029-7955 |
| DOI: | 10.3846/jau.2023.18548 |
| Prístupová URL adresa: | https://doaj.org/article/08634ff0dc2048f9ba8e65a61a399195 https://journals.vilniustech.lt/index.php/JAU/article/view/18548 |
| Prístupové číslo: | edsair.doi.dedup.....8f49f90ec5ee09435ac429a457b004d6 |
| Databáza: | OpenAIRE |
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Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstrakt: | What might have led to the fundamental changes in the built environment during the 20th century? While factors such as postwar reconstruction, urbanization, industrialization, shifts in style, or socio-political changes are surely involved, there may be deeper influences that are associated with the structure and dynamics of the human brain. Iain McGilchrist’s hemisphere hypothesis proposes that the differences between the left and right hemispheres are not functional but embody opposing approaches to the world: the left sees an atomized world made of things to be controlled and manipulated for survival; the right sees an interconnected world of wholes with which it is deeply related. McGilchrist observes that in recent centuries, there has been an increasing shift in the West towards the left hemisphere’s approach. Christopher Alexander’s lifelong quest for wholeness in the built world resonates with McGilchrist’s observations as applied to the field of architecture. Alexander observed that today’s built environment is an expression of our civilization seeing the world as a giant mechanism made of parts rather than an indivisible whole. In response, Alexander developed design methods that approach the world as a unified whole and the building of new places as a further unfolding of that whole. |
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| ISSN: | 20297947 20297955 |
| DOI: | 10.3846/jau.2023.18548 |