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As teachers of architectural design, Kent Bloomer and Charles Moore have attempted to introduce architecture from the standpoint of how buildings are experienced, how the affect individuals and communities emotionally and provide us with a sense of joy, identity, and place. In giving priority to these issues and in questioning the professional reliance on abstract two-dimensional drawings, they often find themselves in conflict with a general and undebated assumption that architecture is a highly specialized system with a set of prescribed technical goals, rather than a sensual social art historically derived from experiences and memories of the human body. This book, an outgrowth of their joint teaching efforts, places the human body at the center of our understanding of architectural form. Body, Memory, and Architecture traces the significance of the body from its place as the divine organizing principle in the earliest built forms to its near elimination from architectural thought in this century. The authors draw on contemporary models of spatial perception as well as on body-image theory in arguing for a return of the body to its proper place in the architectural equation.
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This book is a product of our joint efforts to teach fundamentals of architectural design to first-year professional students at the Yale School of Architecture.
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Traces the significance of the human body in architecture from its early place as the divine organizing principle to its present near elimination.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. B/W Illus (illustrator). This book is a product of our joint efforts to teach fundamentals of architectural design to first-year professional students at the Yale School of Architecture. Contents: Beyond the body boundary -- The mechanization of architecture -- The sense of beauty -- Some twentieth-century models of sense perception -- Body-image theory -- Body, memory, and community -- Body movement -- Place, path, pattern, and edge -- Human identity in memorable places. xii, 147 pages : illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm. Second printing 1978. Orange cloth boards, price-clipped dust jacket. Shelf wear and a couple of small closed tears to edges, previous owner's signature and address inscribed on front free endpaper, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging. Seller Inventory # 018140
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