Harry francis mallgrave biography sample

Juxtaposing Palladio churches and brain sections may seem like a surrealistic operation, “the chance meeting on a dissecting-table of a sewing-machine and an umbrella”, in Lautréamont’s words, or an exquisite corpse, as Breton would have it.

But Harry Francis Mallgrave is not an artist trying to surprise us with superimpositions of unusual objects, but a great specialist in architectural theory, translator and author of monographs on Wagner and Semper (see Arquitectura Viva30, 84, 103, 137), and the two books now published simultaneously can be described as an excellent introduction to the history of architecture from the angle of aesthetic ideas, supplemented in the first volume by a hundred pages on the relevance of neuroscience in architecture.

The Architect’s Brain presents architectural theory, from Alberti to the present, through chapters titled ‘The Humanist Brain’, ‘The Enlightened Brain’ or ‘The Empathetic Brain’ and a parade of names like Perrault, Laugier, Burke,