Harry Francis Mallgrave is a professor of architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology, and has enjoyed a distinguished career as an award-winning scholar, translator, and architect. His most recent publications include Modern Architectural Theory: A Historical Survey, 1673-1968, and the two-volume Architectural Theory: An Anthology from Vitruvius to 2005 (Wiley-Blackwell 2008).  His forthcoming Introduction to Architectual Theory will be published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2010.

• IntroductionPart One: Historical Essays1. The Humanist Brain (Alberti, Vitruvius, and Leonardo).2. The Enlightened Brain (Perrault, Laugier, and Le Roy).3. The Sensational Brain (Burke, Price, and Knight).4. The Transcendental Brain (Kant and Schopenhauer).5. The Animate Brain (Schinkel, Bötticher, and Semper).6. The Empathetic Brain (Vischer, Wölfflin, and Göller).7. The Gestalt Brain (The Dynamics of the Sensory Field).8. The Neurological Brain (Hayek, Hebb, and Neutra).9. The Phenomenal Brain (Merleau-Ponty, Rasmussen, and Pallasmaa).Part Two: Neuroscience and Architecture.10. Anatomy: Architecture of the Brain.11. Ambiguity: Architecture of Vision.12. Metaphor: Architecture of Embodiment.13. Hapticity: Architecture of the Senses.14. Epilogue: The Architect's Brain.Endnotes.Bibliography.Index.

"Hence these two books from the same publisher and by the same author, Harry Francis Mallgrave, sole writer of the former and co-author with David Goodman of the second book, make a valuable contribution to this growing field of knowledge." (Architectural Review, 1 July 2011)