Emotion And Reason In Architecture

This book addresses issues of emotion and reason in architecture. That architecture is form derived from function is a fact. But the ways form comes about in detail is not so clear. The fulfillment of needs and desires is the rational purpose of form. While form is developed and observed, emotional influence is unavoidable. Emotional thinking is reaction to rational thinking. It arises from understanding what form indicates as reflected upon content but also, before that, from instinct about form because of recently had or evolutionary exposures.