This book launch and mini-symposium celebrates two new complementary publications: the AD issue Beauty Matters and the book about the Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB) 2019, on the same topic. Both take an interdisciplinary approach to the re-emerging interest in beauty across neuroscience, neuroesthetics, mathematics, philosophy and architecture.
The evening will start with a screening of Why does beauty matter? followed by a conversation featuring Semir Zeki, a British neurobiologist; Hanif Kara, a structural engineer, design director and co-founder of AKT II; Tateo Nakajima, an Arup Fellow and internationally recognized leader in the design and planning of cultural venues and developments; and Yael Reisner, an architect, researcher, educator and curator – and the Head Curator of the 5th Tallinn Architecture Biennale, TAB 2019, entitled: Beauty Matters.
