Title & Author:

Architecture and the body, science and culture / edited by Kim Sexton.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2018.

Description:

xvii, 262 pages ; 24 cm

Series:

Routledge research in architecture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Architecture before the body? Articulation and proportion in Archaic and Classical Greece / Lian Chikako Chang -- Healing in motion : locotherapy and the architecture of the Pergamene Asklepieion in the second century CE / Ece Okay -- The crafted bodies of Suger : reconsidering the matter of St-Denis / Jason R. Crow -- Gothic skins : penitents at the cathedral / Laura H. Hollengreen -- Hybrid bodies move to center stage on a brothel in medieval Languedoc / Catherine J. Barrett -- Visceral space : dissection and Michelangelo's Medici Chapel / Chloe Costello -- Soaking in architecture : Montaigne, thermal baths and sixteenth-century medical treatises / Lisa Tannenbaum -- Academic bodies and anatomical architechture in early modern Bologna / Kim Sexton -- The eye of modernity : form, proportion and rhythm in German architectural history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Tobias Teutenberg -- Body and space, Gothic and Cubism : a Czech avant-garde between empathy, aesthetics and science / Frank Bauer -- Rehabilitating the invalid body : architecture and citizenship in Jaap Bakema's design for a Dutch postwar village for the disabled / Wanda Katja Liebermann -- Sacred fortresses : the church of St-Bernadette of Banlay and the mechanized body in postwar France / Paula Burleigh.

Summary:

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 pre-modern and modern cultural contexts. 'Architecture and the Body, Science and Culture' pose 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.0.

ISBN:

9781138188822 (hardback alkaline paper)
1138188824 (hardback alkaline paper)
(ebook)
9781315642055

Subject:

Architecture Human factors.
Architecture and science.
Architecture and society.
Architecture Facteurs humains.
Architecture et sciences.
Architecture et société.
Human figure in art.
Human body.

Added entries:

Sexton, Kim Susan, editor.
Routledge research in architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 299044
Call No.: BIB 245176
Status: Available