The Body in Architecture
Language: English
Published by 0, 2006
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- Title
- The Body in Architecture
- Author
- Deborah Hauptmann, Ed.
- Publisher
- 0
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Softcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 9064505683
- ISBN 13
- 9789064505683
Issues surrounding the human body, with its intellectual and sensory capacities are recurring themes in architecture theory. Central to the project of humanism was the organizing of the body, its most spectacular achievement being the creation of a mathematics of seeing for the eye through perspective. Consequently, architectural discourse has dealt with a static concept of the body, an ideal 'whole', for which sensory and intellectual capacities do not correspond to present-day research in the sciences and aesthetic theories. Departing from these traditional notions, the theoretical disposition of the collection posits that in a contemporary reading on the very notion of 'body' it is necessary to understand that there are many bodies: individual, collective, mystical, corporate, institutional, animal, even the prosthetic body and the ethological body made up of movements of slowness and speed.
The Body in Architecture presents a collection of both theoretical essays and architecture, urban & film based projects. Contributors include M. Christine Boyer, Karsten Harries, Anthony Vidler, Arie Graafland, Stefano Boeri, the video artist Dryden Goodwin and Rem Koolhaas.
Delft School of Design Series on Architecture and Urbanism
Also published in this series:
1: Crossover. Architecture / Urbanism / Technology
3: De-/signing the Urban. Technogenesis and the Urban Image
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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Issues surrounding the human body, with its intellectual and sensory capacities are recurring themes in architecture theory. Central to the project of humanism was the organizing of the body, its most spectacular achievement being the creation of a mathematics of seeing for the eye through perspective. Consequently, architectural discourse has dealt with a static concept of the body, an ideal 'whole', for which sensory and intellectual capacities do not correspond to present-day research in the sciences and aesthetic theories. Departing from these traditional notions, the theoretical disposition of the collection posits that in a contemporary reading on the very notion of 'body' it is necessary to understand that there are many bodies: individual, collective, mystical, corporate, institutional, animal, even the prosthetic body and the ethological body made up of movements of slowness and speed.
The Body in Architecture presents a collection of both theoretical essays and architecture, urban & film based projects. Contributors include M. Christine Boyer, Karsten Harries, Anthony Vidler, Arie Graafland, Stefano Boeri, the video artist Dryden Goodwin and Rem Koolhaas.
Delft School of Design Series on Architecture and Urbanism
Also published in this series:
1: Crossover. Architecture / Urbanism / Technology
3: De-/signing the Urban. Technogenesis and the Urban Image
"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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