Download or read book Architectural Colossi and the Human Body written by Charalampos Politakis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human body has been used as both a model and metaphor in architecture since antiquity. This book explores how it has been an inspiration for the exterior form of architectural colossi through the years. It considers the body as a source of architectural and artistic representation and in doing so explores the results of such practices in colossal sculptures and architectural praxis within a philosophical discourse of space, time and media. Architectural Colossi and the Human Body discusses the role of Platonic and Cartesian philosophy and how philosophers such as Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, and theoreticians such as Frascari and Pallasmaa, have seen, described and analysed the human body and the role of architecture and perception. Drawing upon three key case studies and by employing theoretical ideas of Venturi and others, this book will provide an understanding of the role of anthromorphism and the relation and use of the human body with reference to selected architects and artists.
Download or read book Architecture and Body written by Scott Marble and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1988 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays, exhibitions, and projects by noted artists, architects, and theoreticians that addresses the continually shifting values of the body as it both affects and is affected by built form. The book suggests that although discourse about the body is grossly under-represented in the practice and pedagogy of architecture, it is absolutely vital for the reestablishment of a meaningful built culture. Illustrated. No index. No bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Architecture and the Body Science and Culture written by Kim Sexton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 premodern and modern cultural contexts. Architecture and the Body, Science and Culture poses 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. By adding the third factor—science—to the architecture and body equation, this book presents a nuanced appreciation for architectural creativity and its embeddedness in other sets of social, institutional and political relationships. In so doing, it spatializes body theory and ties it to the experience of the built environment in ways that disturb traditional boundaries between the architectural container and the corporeally contained.
Download or read book The Architecture and Design of Man and Woman written by and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than five hundred computer images capture the anatomy of the human body, revealing the construction and workings of each system of the body and rebuilding the body from the molecular level up.
Download or read book Healing Spaces Modern Architecture and the Body written by Sarah Schrank and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body brings together cutting-edge scholarship examining the myriad ways that architects, urban planners, medical practitioners, and everyday people have applied modern ideas about health and the body to the spaces in which they live, work, and heal. The book’s contributors explore North American and European understandings of the relationship between physical movement, bodily health, technological innovation, medical concepts, natural environments, and architectural settings from the nineteenth century through the heyday of modernist architectural experimentation in the 1920s and 1930s and onward into the 1970s. Not only does the book focus on how professionals have engaged with the architecture of healing and the body, it also explores how urban dwellers have strategized and modified their living environments themselves to create a kind of vernacular modernist architecture of health in their homes, gardens, and backyards. This new work builds upon a growing interdisciplinary field incorporating the urban humanities, geography, architectural history, the history of medicine, and critical visual studies that reflects our current preoccupation with the body and its corresponding therapeutic culture.
Download or read book Body and Building written by George Dodds and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the changing relationship of the human body and architecture.
Download or read book Body Memory and Architecture written by Kent C. Bloomer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the significance of the human body in architecture from its early place as the divine organizing principle to its present near elimination
Download or read book Architectural Bodies written by Ad Graafland and published by 010 Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Architecture of the Body Soul and Mind written by Michael Molinelli and published by Independent Publisher. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ARCHITECTURE OF THE BODY, SOUL, AND MIND explores the three greatest movements of western architecture to see how their concepts of beauty were formed by their philosophers. The book makes the case that each style was rooted in a particular aspect of humanity which might explain their enduring appeal. Find out how Greek architecture was based on the body; Gothic architecture was based on the soul; and Modern Rationalist architecture was based on the mind.
Download or read book Archeticture written by David Farrell Krell and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Calls for rethinking architecture as a way of renegotiating our encounter with the world, taking into account the role of love and desire in all human making.
Download or read book The Body in Architecture written by Deborah Hauptmann and published by 010 Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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