Architecture and the body, science and culture / edited by Kim Sexton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sexton, Kim Susan, editor.

Series:

Routledge research in architecture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Human factors.

Architecture.

Architecture and science.

Architecture and society.

Physical Description:

xvii, 262 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

The relationship of architecture to the human body is a centuries-long and complex one, but not always symmetrical. This book opens a space for historians of the visual arts, archaeologists, architects, and digital humanities professionals to reflect upon embodiment, spatiality, science, and architecture in pre-modern and modern cultural contexts. 'Architecture and the Body, Science and Culture' pose one overarching question: How does a period's understanding of bodies as objects of science impinge upon architectural thought and design? The answers are sophisticated, interdisciplinary explorations of theory, technology, symbolism, medicine, violence, psychology, deformity, and salvation, and they have unexpected and fascinating implications for architectural design and history. The new research published in this volume reinvigorates the Western survey-style trajectory from Archaic Greece to post-war Europe with scientifically-framed, body-centred provocations.0.

Contents:

1 Architecture before the body? Articulation and proportion in Archaic and Classical Greece / Lian Chikako Chang Chang, Lian Chikako 8

2 Healing in motion: locotherapy and the architecture of the Pergamene Asklepieion in the second century CE / Ece Okay Okay, Ece 27

3 The crafted bodies of Suger: reconsidering the matter of St-Denis / Jason R. Crow Crow, Jason R. 45

4 Gothic skins: penitents at the cathedral / Laura H. Hollengreen Hollengreen, Laura H. 67

5 Hybrid bodies move to center stage on a brothel in medieval Languedoc / Catherine J. Barrett Barrett, Catherine J. 86

6 Visceral space: dissection and Michelangelo's Medici Chapel / Chloe Costello Costello, Chloe 106

7 Soaking in architecture: Montaigne, thermal baths and sixteenth-century medical treatises / Lisa Tannenbaum Tannenbaum, Lisa 125

8 Academic bodies and anatomical architecture in early modern Bologna / Kim Sexton Sexton, Kim 139

9 The eye of modernity: form, proportion and rhythm in German architectural history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Tobias Teutenberg Teutenberg, Tobias 157

10 Body and space, Gothic and Cubism: a Czech avant-garde between empathy, aesthetics and science / Frank Bauer Bauer, Frank 177

11 Rehabilitating the invalid body: architecture and citizenship in Jaap Bakema's design for a Dutch postwar village for the disabled / Wanda Katja Liebermann Liebermann, Wanda Katja 196

12 Sacred fortresses: the church of Ste-Bernadette of Banlay and the mechanized body in postwar France / Paula Burleigh Burleigh, Paula 217.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138188822

1138188824

OCLC:

982653341