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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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The concept of atmosphere in present architectural theory has many points of convergence with the insights of 20th‐century Surrealism. Alberto Pérez‐Gómez – Saidye Rosner Bronfman Professor of the History of Architecture at McGill University in Montreal – here examines themes including desire, poetics, musical affinities and the risks of stylistic imitation, with reference to writers from André Breton to Octavio Paz and from Edmund Husserl to Maurice Merleau‐Ponty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]