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Body and building : essays on the changing relation of body and architecture / edited by George Dodds and Robert Tavernor.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Human factors.
- Architecture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (427 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction
- George Baird
- "A Promise as Well as a Memory": Toward an Intellectual Biography ofJoseph Rykwert
- Dalibor Vesely
- The Architectonics of Embodiment
- John Onians
- Greek Temple and Greek Brain
- Mark Wilson Jones
- Doric Figuration
- Robert Tavernor
- Contemplating Perfection through Piero's Eyes
- Alina Payne
- Reclining Bodies: Figural Ornament in Renaissance Architecture
- Simon Pepper
- Body, Diagram, and Geometry in the Renaissance Fortress
- Harry Francis Mallgrave
- Dancing with Vitruvius: Corporeal Fantasies in Northern Classicism
- Vaughan Hart
- On Inigo Jones and the Stuart Legal Body: "Justice and Equity and Proportions Appertaining"
- Karsten Harries
- Sphere and Cross: Vitruvian Reflections on the Pantheon Type
- Alberto Perez-G6mez
- Charles-Etienne Briseux: The Musical Body and the Limits of Instrumentality in Architecture
- Richard Sennett
- The Foreigner
- Neil Leach
- Vitruvius Crucifixus: Architecture, Mimesis, and the Death Instinct
- Marcia F. Feuerstein
- Body and Building inside the Bauhaus's Darker Side: On Oskar Schlemmer
- George Dodds
- Desiring Landscapes/Landscapes of Desire: Scopic and Somatic in the Brion Sanctuary
- Marco Frascari
- A Tradition of Architectural Figures: A Search for Vita Beata
- David Leatherbarrow
- Sitting in the City, or The Body in the World
- William Braham and Paul Emmons
- Upright or Flexible? Exercising Posture in Modern Architecture
- Kenneth Frampton
- Corporeal Experience in the Architecture of Tadao Ando
- Epilogue
- Vittorio Gregotti (translated by George Dodds and Robert Tavernor)
- Joseph Rykwert: An Anthropologist of Architectural History?.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Written for a symposium held at the University of Pennsylvania in March 1996 in honor of Jospeh Rykwert.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9780262271813
- 0262271818
- 9781423729808
- 1423729803
- OCLC:
- 62098363
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