This month's review of "Neuroarchitecture" by Ana Mombiedro.
What is neuroarchitecture?
With a gentle tone and plain language, Ana Mombiedro talks to us about you to propose a journey through the senses and try to explain what she understands by neuroarchitecture.
From the first chapter, he dialogues with the reader and appeals to his curiosity to let go of ideas and concepts, mixing disciplines such as psychology, architecture, somatics, biology... and shedding light on what could be considered neuroarchitecture.
According to the author, it is very important that, when designing and building spaces, consideration is given to the use they will have and the people who will use them because their feelings and their way of being in these spaces is what it must guide the architect to make his work make the most sense. In his words: "The ethical task of architecture is to look after the emotional health of its inhabitants".
If we understand how the brain works, how it receives and processes stimuli, we can understand that the places where our life takes place influence us and are able to create pleasant sensations or vice versa.
With the help of abundant examples and practical exercises that we can carry out, Mombiedro takes small steps that help us understand this new approach to architecture, more emotional, perhaps more individualized and all, until we answer the initial question: could we understand by neuroarchitecture the observation of space from the functioning of the nervous system?
It is, in conclusion, a didactic and curious text with which to broaden the perspective regarding the more normative architecture and take a step closer to real use in everyday life.