Architectural Body

Author : Madeline Gins,Shusaku Arakawa
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780817311698

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Architectural Body by Madeline Gins,Shusaku Arakawa Pdf

A verbal articulation of the authors' visionary theory of how the human body, architecture, and creativity define and sustain one another This revolutionary work by artist-architects Arakawa and Madeline Gins demonstrates the inter-connectedness of innovative architectural design, the poetic process, and philosophical inquiry. Together, they have created an experimental and widely admired body of work--museum installations, landscape and park commissions, home and office designs, avant-garde films, poetry collections--that challenges traditional notions about the built environment. This book promotes a deliberate use of architecture and design in dealing with the blight of the human condition; it recommends that people seek architectural and aesthetic solutions to the dilemma of mortality. In 1997 the Guggenheim Museum presented an Arakawa/Gins retrospective and published a comprehensive volume of their work titled Reversible Destiny: We Have Decided Not to Die. Architectural Body continues the philosophical definition of that project and demands a fundamental rethinking of the terms “human” and “being.” When organisms assume full responsibility for inventing themselves, where they live and how they live will merge. The artists believe that a thorough re-visioning of architecture will redefine life and its limitations and render death passe. The authors explain that “Another way to read reversible destiny . . . Is as an open challenge to our species to reinvent itself and to desist from foreclosing on any possibility.” Audacious and liberating, this volume will be of interest to students and scholars of 20th-century poetry, postmodern critical theory, conceptual art and architecture, contemporary avant-garde poetics, and to serious readers interested in architecture's influence on imaginative expression.

Author : Ad Graafland
Publisher : 010 Publishers
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9064502897

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Architectural Bodies by Ad Graafland Pdf

Author : Christie Pearson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262044219

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The Architecture of Bathing by Christie Pearson Pdf

A celebration of communal bathing—swimming pools, saunas, beaches, ritual baths, sweat lodges, and more—viewed through the lens of architecture and landscape. We enter the public pool, the sauna, or the beach with a heightened awareness of our bodies and the bodies of others. The phenomenology of bathing opens all of our senses toward the physical world entwined with the social, while the history of bathing is one of shared space, in both natural and built environments. In The Architecture of Bathing, Christie Pearson offers a unique examination of communal bathing and its history from the perspective of architecture and landscape. Engagingly written and richly illustrated, with more than 260 illustrations, many in color, The Architecture of Bathing offers a celebration of spaces in which public and private, sacred and profane, ritual and habitual, pure and impure, nature and culture commingle. Pearson takes a wide-ranging view of her subject, drawing on architecture, art, and literary works. Each chapter is structured around an architectural typology and explores an accompanying theme—for example, tub, sensuality; river, flow; waterfall, rejuvenation; and banya, immersion. Offering examples, introducing relevant theory, and recounting personal experiences, Pearson effortlessly combines a practitioner's zest with astonishing erudition. As she examines these forms, we see that they are inextricable from landscapes, bodily practices, and cultural production. Looking more closely, we experience architecture itself as an immersive material and social space, embedded inthe interdependent environmental and cultural fabric of our world.

Author : Charalampos Politakis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781315512914

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Architectural Colossi and the Human Body by Charalampos Politakis Pdf

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.

Author : Nathalie Bredella
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000437133

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The Architectural Imagination at the Digital Turn by Nathalie Bredella Pdf

The Architectural Imagination at the Digital Turn asks what it means to speak of a "digital turn" in architecture. It examines how architects at the time engaged with the digital and imagined future modes of practice, and looks at the technological, conceptual and economic phenomena behind this engagement. It argues that the adoption of digital technology in architecture was far from linear but depended on complex factors, from the operative logic of the technology itself to the context in which it was used and the people who interacted with it. Creating a mosaic-like account, the book presents debates, projects and publications that changed how architecture was visualized, fabricated and experienced using digital technology. Spanning the university, new media art institutes, ecologies, architectural bodies, fabrication and the city, it re-evaluates familiar narratives that emphasized formal explorations; instead, the book aims to complicate the "myth" of the digital by presenting a nuanced analysis of the material and social context behind each case study. During the 1990s, architects repurposed software and technological concepts from other disciplines and tested them in a design environment. Some architects were fascinated by its effects, others were more critical. Through its discussion on case studies, places and themes that fundamentally influenced discourse formation in the era, this book offers scholars, researchers and students fresh insights into how architecture can engage with the digital realm today.

Author : Kim Sexton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367501937

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Architecture and the Body, Science and Culture by Kim Sexton Pdf

Architecture and the Body, Science and Culture provides a forum for historians of the visual arts, archaeologists, and architects to reflect upon embodiment, spatiality, science, and architecture in pre‐modern and modern cultural contexts.

Author : Andrew Benjamin
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0485004151

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Architectural Philosophy by Andrew Benjamin Pdf

Architectural Philosophy is the first book to outline a philosophical account of architecture and to establish the singularity of architectural practice and theory. This dazzling sequence of essays opens out the subject of architecture, touching on issues as wide ranging as the problem of memory and the dystopias of science fiction. Arguing for the indissolubility of form and function, Architectural Philosophy explores both the definition of the site and the possibility of alterity. The analysis of the nature of the present and the complex sructure of repetition allows for the possibility of judgement, a judgement that arises from a reworked politics of architecture.

Author : Sam Ridgway
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317179467

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Architectural Projects of Marco Frascari by Sam Ridgway Pdf

Marco Frascari believed that architects should design thoughtful buildings capable of inspiring their inhabitants to have pleasurable and happy lives. A visionary Italian architect, academic and theorist, Frascari is best-known for his extraordinary texts, which explore the intellectual, theoretical and practical substance of the architectural discipline. As a student in Venice during the late 1960s, Frascari was taught and mentored by Carlo Scarpa. Later he moved to North America with his family, where he became a fulltime academic. Throughout his academic career, he continued to work on numerous architectural projects, including exhibitions, competition entries, and designs for approximately 35 buildings, a small number of which were built. As a means of (re)constructing the theatre of imaginative theory within which these buildings were created, Sam Ridgway draws on a wide selection of Frascari’s texts, including his richly poetic book Monsters of Architecture, to explore the themes of representation, demonstration, and anthropomorphism. Three of Frascari’s delightful buildings are then brought to light and interpreted, revealing a sophisticated and interwoven relationship between texts and buildings.

Author : Kent C. Bloomer,Charles Willard Moore,Robert J. Yudell,Buzz Yudell
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780300021424

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Body, Memory, and Architecture by Kent C. Bloomer,Charles Willard Moore,Robert J. Yudell,Buzz Yudell Pdf

Traces the significance of the human body in architecture from its early place as the divine organizing principle to its present near elimination

Author : Liane Lefaivre
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262621959

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Leon Battista Alberti's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili by Liane Lefaivre Pdf

A critical-theoretical reading of the strange, dreamlike work of Leon Battista Alberti.

Author : Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux,Neil Fraistat
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Communication
ISBN : 0299173844

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Reimagining Textuality by Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux,Neil Fraistat Pdf

What happens when, in the wake of postmodernism, the old enterprise of bibliography, textual criticism, or scholarly editing crosses paths and processes with visual and cultural studies? In Reimagining Textuality, major scholars map out in this volume a new discipline, drawing on and redirecting a host of subfields concerned with the production, distribution, reproduction, consumption, reception, archiving, editing, and sociology of texts.

Author : Michael Molinelli
Publisher : Independent Publisher
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1792305389

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Architecture of the Body, Soul, and Mind by Michael Molinelli Pdf

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.

Author : Federico De Matteis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0367541114

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Affective Spaces by Federico De Matteis Pdf

This book explores the notion of affective space in relation to architecture. It helps to clarify the first-person, direct experience of the environment and how it impacts a person's emotional states, influencing their perception of the world around them. Affective space has become a central notion in several discussions across philosophy, geography, anthropology, architecture and so on. However, only a limited selection of its key features finds resonance in architectural and urban theory, especially the idea of atmospheres, through the work of German phenomenologist Gernot Böhme. This book brings to light a wider range of issues bound to lived corporeal experience. These further issues have only received minor attention in architecture, where the discourse on affective space mostly remains superficial. The theory of atmospheres, in particular, is often criticized as being a surface-level, shallow theory as it is introduced in an unsystematic and fragmented fashion, and is a mere "easy to use" segment of what is a wider and all but impressionistic analytical method. This book provides a broader outlook on the topic and creates an entry point into a hitherto underexplored field. The book's theoretical foundation rests on a wide range of non-architectural sources, primarily from philosophy, anthropology and the cognitive sciences, and is strengthened through cases drawn from actual architectural and urban space. These cases make the book more comprehensible for readers not versed in contemporary philosophical trends.

Author : Mimi Yiu
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780810129863

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Architectural Involutions by Mimi Yiu Pdf

Taking the reader on an inward journey from façades to closets, from physical to psychic space, Architectural Involutions offers an alternative genealogy of theater by revealing how innovations in architectural writing and practice transformed an early modern sense of interiority. As the English house underwent a process of inward folding, replacing a logic of central assembly with one of dissemination, the subject who negotiated this new scenography became a flashpoint of conflict in both domestic and theatrical arenas. The book launches from a matrix of related “platforms”—a term that in early modern usage denoted scaffolds, stages, and draftsmen’s sketches—to situate Alberti, Shakespeare, Jonson, and others within a landscape of spatial and visual change. Engaging theory with archival findings, Mimi Yiu reveals an emergent desire to perform subjectivity, to unfold an interior face to an admiring public.

Author : Sun-Young Park
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780822986065

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Ideals of the Body by Sun-Young Park Pdf

Modern hygienic urbanism originated in the airy boulevards, public parks, and sewer system that transformed the Parisian cityscape in the mid-nineteenth century. Yet these well-known developments in public health built on a previous moment of anxiety about the hygiene of modern city dwellers. Amid fears of national decline that accompanied the collapse of the Napoleonic Empire, efforts to modernize Paris between 1800 and 1850 focused not on grand and comprehensive structural reforms, but rather on improving the bodily and mental fitness of the individual citizen. These forgotten efforts to renew and reform the physical and moral health of the urban subject found expression in the built environment of the city—in the gymnasiums, swimming pools, and green spaces of private and public institutions, from the pedagogical to the recreational. Sun-Young Park reveals how these anxieties about health and social order, which manifested in emerging ideals of the body, created a uniquely spatial and urban experience of modernity in the postrevolutionary capital, one profoundly impacted by hygiene, mobility, productivity, leisure, spectacle, and technology.