Aesthetic Sensibility

Study on shape creation of building's roof by evaluating aesthetic sensibility

The purpose of this study is to develop an optimum design method for roof shapes satisfying both aesthetic sensibility (beauty) and economic evaluation by using the genetic algorithm (GA). The object is the roof of a gymnasium, and the target roof shape is asymmetrical. The roof shapes were evaluated on the basis of the satisfaction degrees of both economic evaluation and beauty. The economic e...

Material Figures: Political Economy, Commercial Culture, and the Aesthetic Sensibility of Charles Baudelaire (book review)

Sense & Sensibility

It is worth recalling how Richard Feynman once publicized his opinion on scientific truth. In his book entitled The Meaning of It All, he wrote, 'No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated.' This celebrated theoretical physicist's comment pointed out that, for the sake of human intellectual...

Sensibility Design

Introduction The accelerated development of innovative forms, unusual material applications, new technical means and processes, and globalization in the second half of the 20 century have heavily influenced manufactured products. Since the 1960s, it has been observed that corporations and designers have focused on creating user-friendly products leading to, among other things, softer organic fo...

Biosensors: sense and sensibility.

This review is based on the Theophilus Redwood Medal and Award lectures, delivered to Royal Society of Chemistry meetings in the UK and Ireland in 2012, and presents a personal overview of the field of biosensors. The biosensors industry is now worth billions of United States dollars, the topic attracts the attention of national initiatives across the world and tens of thousands of papers have ...