1st Edition

Cognition and the Built Environment

By Ole Möystad Copyright 2018
204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

Cognition and the Built Environment argues that interacting with our built environment, as users and as architects, is a cognitive process. It claims that architecture, in its form and meaning, is a basic, embodied level of human cognition. The assumption is that we and our built environment together form an intelligent system, a cognitive feedback loop between us and the world of... Read more

Prologue Chapter 1. Making Sense Chapter 2. The Field Chapter 3. The Object Chapter 4. The Work Epilogue

Biography

Ole Möystad defended his PhD on architecture and cognitive semiotics in 1994. He has pursued this topic through academic as well as professional work in Beirut, Oslo, Trondheim, Lisbon, Barcelona, Asmara, Xi’an, Delft and Brussels. He is Professor in the Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway, and head of The Urban Trigger Group.