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Aesthetic Theories and Perception of Built Form
The aim of behavioural sciences has been to assist in understanding the aesthetic experience of the built environment. This may be considered from different perspectives: mechanistic, contextualist, organismicist, and formalist. In phenomenological terms, this focuses on insights into the cognitive relation between person and environment. Different theories of perception may be either ‘sensation‐based’ or ‘information‐based’. Empirical, rational and Gestalt theories are ‘sensation‐based’, whereby environmental stimuli arouse the senses. ‘Information‐based’ perception is more focused on learning from the optical arrays of ambient light and conversion from two dimensions into three‐dimensional images. J. Piaget has outlined the process of learning to see, whereby children start to ‘schematise’ concrete objects and their interrelationships. Subsequently, they recognise topological schemata or transformations, such as proximity, separation, closure and continuity. H. Helmholtz described how visual perception can show ‘constancy’ effects where a given size is perceived more or less correctly at a distance.
Aesthetic Theories and Perception of Built Form
The aim of behavioural sciences has been to assist in understanding the aesthetic experience of the built environment. This may be considered from different perspectives: mechanistic, contextualist, organismicist, and formalist. In phenomenological terms, this focuses on insights into the cognitive relation between person and environment. Different theories of perception may be either ‘sensation‐based’ or ‘information‐based’. Empirical, rational and Gestalt theories are ‘sensation‐based’, whereby environmental stimuli arouse the senses. ‘Information‐based’ perception is more focused on learning from the optical arrays of ambient light and conversion from two dimensions into three‐dimensional images. J. Piaget has outlined the process of learning to see, whereby children start to ‘schematise’ concrete objects and their interrelationships. Subsequently, they recognise topological schemata or transformations, such as proximity, separation, closure and continuity. H. Helmholtz described how visual perception can show ‘constancy’ effects where a given size is perceived more or less correctly at a distance.
Aesthetic Theories and Perception of Built Form
Lewis, Nigel (author)
Design and Order ; 91-113
2020-09-08
22 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
| Taylor & Francis Verlag | 2012
| British Library Online Contents | 2012
| British Library Online Contents | 2012