Title & Author:

Body and building : essays on the changing relation of body and architecture / edited by George Dodds and Robert Tavernor.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002.

Description:

427 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Written for a symposium held at the University of Pennsylvania in March 1996 in honor of Jospeh Rykwert.
Written for a symposium held at the University of Pennsylvania in March 1996 in honor of Joseph Rykwert.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A promise as well as a memory": toward an intellectual biography of Joseph Rykwert / George Baird -- The architectonics of embodiment / Dalibor Vesely -- Greek temple and Greek brain / John Onians -- Doric figuration / Mark Wilson Jones -- Contemplating perfection through Piero's eyes / Robert Tavernor -- Reclining bodies: figural ornament in Renaissance architecture / Alina Payne -- Body, diagram, and geometry in the Renaissance fortress / Simon Pepper -- Dancing with Vitruvius: corporeal fantasies in northern classicism / Harry Francis Mallgrave -- On Inigo Jones and the Stuart legal body: "Justice and equity ... and proportions appertaining" / Vaughan Hart -- Sphere and cross: Vitruvian reflections on the Pantheon type / Karsten Harries -- Charles-Etienne Briseux: the musical body and the limits of instrumentality in architecture / Alberto Pérez-Gómez -- The foreigner / Richard Sennett -- Vitruvius Crucifixus: architecture, Mimesis, and the death instinct / Neil Leach -- Body and building inside the Bauhaus's darker side: on Oskar Schlemmer / Marcia F. Feuerstein -- Desiring landscapes/landscapes of desire: scopic and somatic in the Brion Sanctuary / George Dodds -- A tradition of architectural figures: a search for Vita Beata / Marco Frascari -- Sitting in the city, or The body in the world / David Leatherbarrow -- Upright or flexible? Exercising posture in modern architecture / William Braham and Paul Emmons -- Corporeal experience in the architecture of Tadao Ando / Kenneth Frampton -- Joseph Rykwert: an anthropologist of architectural history? / Vittorio Gregotti (translated by George Dodds and Robert Tavernor).
Dust jacket.

Summary:

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.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0262041952 (hc. ; alk. paper)
9780262041959 (hc. ; alk. paper)
0262541831
9780262541831

Subject:

Rykwert, Joseph 1926-
Rykwert, Joseph, 1926-
Architecture Human factors.
Architecture Facteurs humains.
Kongress
Architektur
Körper
Menselijk lichaam.
Harmonie (filosofie en sociologie)
Proporties.
Bouwkunst.
Architecture.
Facteur humain.

Form/genre:

Kongress Philadelphia (Pa.) 1996.
Festschriften.
Mélanges (Recueils)

Added entries:

Dodds, George, 1958-
Tavernor, Robert.
Rykwert, Joseph, 1926-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 221813
Call No.: NA2542.4 .B6 2002
Status: Available