Cognitive Architecture by Ann Sussman & Justin B. Hollander

Author:Ann Sussman & Justin B. Hollander
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Routledge

The ‘constructal law’ is at work everywhere, he argues. It shows up in the way the brain’s neurons, the cells with long fiber-like branches (axons and dendrites) responsible for brain communication, create networks:

The architecture of the brain consists of bundles and bundles of constantly forming and adjusting tree-shaped flows. The reason is that tree-shaped architectures provide easier and easier point-volume and point-access.

(Bejan 1996: 99)

And it shows up in the fast way our visual system processes the Golden Rectangle:

This is the best flowing configuration for images from plane to brain, and it manifests itself frequently in human-made shapes that give the impression that they were ‘designed’ according to the golden ratio.

(Bejan 1996)

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