Body and Building : Essays on the Changing Relation of Body and Architecture Paperback / softback
Edited by George (University of Tennessee) Dodds, Robert Tavernor
Part of the The MIT Press series
Paperback / softback
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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.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:438 pages, 110 illus.; 110 Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
- Publication Date:11/02/2005
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- ISBN:9780262541831
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:438 pages, 110 illus.; 110 Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
- Publication Date:11/02/2005
- Category:
- ISBN:9780262541831
