TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kolb,Michael J.
TI  - Making sense of monuments: narratives of time, movement, and scale 
T2  - Routledge studies in archaeology
SN  - 9780429427756
AV  - NA2542.4 
U1  - 725/.94 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Human factors
KW  - Monuments
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Making sense of monuments -- Time -- Movement -- Scale
N2  - "Stonehenge, Machu Picchu, Confederate statues, Egyptian pyramids, and medieval cathedrals: these are some of the places that are the subject of Making Sense of Monuments, an analysis of how the built environment molds human experiences and perceptions via bodily comparison. Drawing from recent research in cognitive neuroscience, psychology, and semiotics, Michael J. Kolb explores the mechanics of the mind, the material world, and the spatialization process of monumental architecture. Three distinct spatial-cognitive metaphors-time, movement, and scale-comprise strands of knowledge that when interwoven create embodied contours of meaning of how human interact with monumental spaces. Comprehensive, lucidly written, and thoroughly illustrated, Making Sense of Monuments is a vibrant, extraordinary journey of the monuments we have constructed and inhabited"--
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429427756
UR  - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
ER  -