Body and building : essays on the changing relation of body and architecture / edited by George Dodds and Robert Tavernor
- Published
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2002]
- Copyright Date
- ©2002
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (427 pages) : illustrations
- Additional Creators
- Dodds, George, 1958-, Tavernor, Robert, and Rykwert, Joseph, 1926-
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- Contents
- "A promise as well as a memory": toward an intellectual biography of Joseph Rykwert / George Baird -- The architectonics of embodiment / Dalibor Vesely -- Greek temple and Greek brain / John Onians -- Doric figuration / Mark Wilson Jones -- Contemplating perfection through Piero's eyes / Robert Tavernor -- Reclining bodies: figural ornament in Renaissance architecture / Alina Payne -- Body, diagram, and geometry in the Renaissance fortress / Simon Pepper -- Dancing with Vitruvius: corporeal fantasies in northern classicism / Harry Francis Mallgrave -- On Inigo Jones and the Stuart legal body: "Justice and equity ... and proportions appertaining" / Vaughan Hart -- Sphere and cross: Vitruvian reflections on the Pantheon type / Karsten Harries -- Charles-Etienne Briseux: the musical body and the limits of instrumentality in architecture / Alberto Pérez-Gómez -- The foreigner / Richard Sennett -- Vitruvius Crucifixus: architecture, Mimesis, and the death instinct / Neil Leach -- Body and building inside the Bauhaus's darker side: on Oskar Schlemmer / Marcia F. Feuerstein -- Desiring landscapes/landscapes of desire: scopic and somatic in the Brion Sanctuary / George Dodds -- A tradition of architectural figures: a search for Vita Beata / Marco Frascari -- Sitting in the city, or The body in the world / David Leatherbarrow -- Upright or flexible? Exercising posture in modern architecture / William Braham and Paul Emmons -- Corporeal experience in the architecture of Tadao Ando / Kenneth Frampton -- Joseph Rykwert: an anthropologist of architectural history? / Vittorio Gregotti (translated by George Dodds and Robert Tavernor).
- Summary
- Essays on the changing relationship of the human body and architecture. Since Greek antiquity, the human body has been regarded as a microcosm of universal harmony. In this book, an international group of architects, architectural historians, and theorists examines the relation of the human body and architecture. The essays view well-known buildings, texts, paintings, ornaments, and landscapes from the perspective of the body's physical, psychological, and spiritual needs and pleasures. Topics include Greek temples; the churches of Tadao Ando in Japan; Renaissance fortresses and paintings; the body, space, and dwelling in Wright's and Schindler's houses in North America; the corporeal dimension of Carlo Scarpa's landscapes and gardens; theory from Vitruvius to the Renaissance and Enlightenment; and Freudian psychoanalysis. The essays are framed by an appreciation of architectural historian and theorist Joseph Rykwert's influential work on the subject.
- Subject(s)
- Rykwert, Joseph, 1926-
- Architecture—Human factors
- Architecture—Facteurs humains
- ARCHITECTURE—Reference
- ARCHITECTURE—Professional Practice
- ARCHITECTURE—Adaptive Reuse & Renovation
- ARCHITECTURE—Buildings—General
- Kongress
- Architektur
- Körper
- Menselijk lichaam
- Harmonie (filosofie en sociologie)
- Proporties
- Bouwkunst
- Architecture
- Facteur humain
- Other Subject(s)
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9780262271813 (electronic bk.)
0262271818 (electronic bk.)
1423729803 (electronic bk.)
9781423729808 (electronic bk.) - Note
- Written for a symposium held at the University of Pennsylvania in March 1996 in honor of Jospeh Rykwert.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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