UID:
edocfu_9961267992002883
Format:
1 online resource (427 pages) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
0-262-27181-8
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1-4237-2980-3
Content:
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.
Note:
Written for a symposium held at the University of Pennsylvania in March 1996 in honor of Jospeh Rykwert.
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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?.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-262-04195-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-262-54183-1
Language:
English
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