11. 1 AESTHETIC VALUE * Lemnos Hospital is a particularly fine example of a hospital complex constructed during the inter-war period, employing the style and landscape design of the period's domestic architecture. The aesthetic quality of the hospital environment represents the high standard of care accorded to the special medical needs of the returned servicemen from World War One. (Criterion ...

In this paper we investigate and compare four aesthetic measures within the context of evolutionary art. We evolve visual art with an unsupervised evolutionary art system using genetic programming and an aesthetic measure as the fitness function. We perform multiple experiments with different aesthetic measures and examine their influence on the evolved images. To this end we store the 5 fittes...

By taking advantage of the advent o f functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) this thesis argues that aesthetics belongs in the domain o f neurobiology by investigating the d ifferent brain processes that are implicated in aesthetic perception from two perspectives. The firs t experiment explores a specific artistic style that has stressed the problem in the relationship between objects an...

mosques, as symbol of islamic architecture must play an important role in reflecting the superiority of allah the almighty. there are many ways in making it successful and one of them is through the high quality of aesthetic value. aesthetic value in islamic art and architecture is normally portrayed by the highest degree of motifs and ornamentation. contemporary mosque designers normally focus...

This article explores the expression of three forest value orientations that emerged from an analysis of Australian news media discourse about the management of Australian native forests from August 1, 1997 through December 31, 2004. Computer-coded content analysis was used to measure and track the relative importance of commodity, ecological and moral/spiritual/aesthetic forest value orientati...