The neuroaesthetics of architectural spaces

What the study found

Synthesizes how architectural spaces may engage sensory-motor, emotion-valuation and meaning-knowledge systems.

Limitations

Conceptual synthesis outpaces direct causal evidence for many spatial features.

Neurodesign interpretation

Architectural beauty is not a single brain response. It emerges from perception, action readiness, affect and knowledge, which explains why style-only explanations fail.

Possible design implications

Use its systems-level organization to categorize primary studies by mechanism.

Why it stays in the corpus

Retain as a neuroaesthetic framework for architecture.

Study design

Review

Population

Humans across neuroscience and architecture literature

Setting

Architectural experience

Field

Neuroaesthetics, architecture

Mechanism

Aesthetic valuation, perception-action, emotion

Spatial variable

Architectural form and visual-spatial properties

Keywords

neuroaesthetics, architecture, emotion, perception, valuation