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Towards a Neuroscience for Architecture

ANFA, the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture, is a unique collaboration of architects and neuroscientists pursuing the relationship between the built environment and human behavior and cognition. The organization was the second recipient of the AIA College of Fellows Latrobe Prize in 2003, and has been a vital link in the pursuit of this discipline. Tom Albright is a research scientist with the Salk Institute, and specializes in issues of visual perception and acuity. He is a leader in his field, and will share the fascinating relationship between architects and scientists that seeks to prove what we know intuitively. This topic has major influence on educational and healthy/wellness environments.

Learning Objectives:
1.Attendees will learn how neuroscience impacts the built environment

2.Attendees will learn about the relation between design and brain patterns

3.Attendees will learn how organizational patterns of the brain lead to novel design principles

4.Attendees will learn how the brain processes design

Presenter:
Thomas D. Albright, Ph.D.

Date:November 1, 2016

Time:5:00 PM check-in/refreshments

Presentation: 5:30 6:30 PM

Location:
Lutron Experience Center
2458 Dupont Drive
Irvine, CA 92612

Learning Units: 1.0 LU

Cost: $10 Members
$20 Non-Members

Presenter:

Thomas D. Albright is Professor and Conrad T. Prebys Chair at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, where he joined the faculty in 1986. He is also Director of the Salk Institute Center for the Neurobiology of Vision and Adjunct Professor of Psychology and Neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego. Albright is an authority on the neural basis of visual perception, memory and visually guided behavior. His laboratory seeks to understand how visual perception is affected by attention, behavioral goals, and memories of previous experiences. An important goal of this work is the development of therapies for blindness and perceptual impairments resulting from disease, trauma or developmental disorders of the brain. A second aim of Dr. Albrights work is to use our growing knowledge of brain, perception and memory to inform design in architecture and the arts, and to leverage societal decisions and public policy. Albright received a Ph.D. in psychology and neuroscience from Princeton University. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an associate of the Neuroscience Research Program. He is past-president of the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (2012-2014), a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Science, Technology, and Law, and a member of the U.S. National Commission on Forensic Science.