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Beauty in Architecture: Not a Luxury ‐ Only a Necessity
Author(s) -
Zeki Semir
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.2473
Subject(s) - beauty , humanity , architecture , aesthetics , quality (philosophy) , sociology , art , environmental ethics , philosophy , visual arts , epistemology , theology
Can beauty in architecture nourish the human emotional brain? Semir Zeki , Professor of Neuroaesthetics at University College London argues that it does. He goes further in suggesting it should be a quality in all buildings and that humanity has the ability to recognise this beauty across all cultural divides. The appreciation of beauty, no matter where found, is hardwired into our brains.