Title & Author:

Images of the body in architecture : anthropology and built space / edited by Kirsten Wagner and Jasper Cepl.

Publication:

Tübingen : Wasmuth, ©2014.

Description:

394 pages : illustrations, plans ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Images of the body in architecture : anthropology and built space / Kirsten Wagner and Jasper Cepl -- Whose body? / Indra Kagis McEwen -- anthropomorphism : from vitruvius to neufert, from human measurement to the module of fascism / Franz Zöllner -- Measuring beauty : ideal proportions and the human figure ca. 1930 / Eckhard Leuschner -- Space and the body : concepts of the corporeal in Le Corbusier's work / Christoph Schnoor -- Kurokawa's mebolic space / Tobias Cheuns -- Camillo Sitte : optically constructed space and artistic city building / Heleni Porfyriou -- Architecture as enclosure of man : August Schmarsow's attempt at a scientific grounding of the Hegelian principle / Beatrix Zug-Rosenblatt -- New Hellerau : design in the biological age / Harry Francis Mallgrave -- The building as a living work of art in the time of Cosimo Fazago / Paolo Sanvito -- The relief and the body : relationships between sculture and architecture around 1900 / Claire Barbillon -- The transitorines of matter : reflections on the architecture of sir John Soane / Tanja Jankowiak -- Foucault and the body as a site of resistance / Sven-Olov Wallenstein -- Architecture for patients : medicine and city planning in Berlin, 1860-1960 / Philipp Osten -- Body, order, and border : ein-richtung as biopolitical procedure in residential building after 1945, and its critique in the visual media of the 1960s / Irene Nierhaus -- My home is my body / Günther Feuerstein

ISBN:

9783803007315 (hd. bd.)
3803007313 (hd. bd.)

Subject:

Human figure in art.
Architecture.
Anthropology.
Corps humain dans l'art.
Anthropologie.
anthropology.

Added entries:

Wagner, Kirsten.
Cepl, Jasper.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290508
Call No.: BIB 233536
Status: Available