Architectural Colossi And The Human Body

Author : Charalampos Politakis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 51,6 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 : Kim Sexton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317281856

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

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 premodern and modern cultural contexts. Architecture and the Body, Science and Culture poses 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. By adding the third factor—science—to the architecture and body equation, this book presents a nuanced appreciation for architectural creativity and its embeddedness in other sets of social, institutional and political relationships. In so doing, it spatializes body theory and ties it to the experience of the built environment in ways that disturb traditional boundaries between the architectural container and the corporeally contained.

Author : Scott Marble
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCSD:31822004019378

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Architecture and Body by Scott Marble Pdf

A collection of essays, exhibitions, and projects by noted artists, architects, and theoreticians that addresses the continually shifting values of the body as it both affects and is affected by built form. The book suggests that although discourse about the body is grossly under-represented in the practice and pedagogy of architecture, it is absolutely vital for the reestablishment of a meaningful built culture. Illustrated. No index. No bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Kostas Tsiambaos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317205081

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From Doxiadis' Theory to Pikionis' Work by Kostas Tsiambaos Pdf

In this book, Tsiambaos redefines the ground-breaking theory of Greek architect and town planner Constantinos A. Doxiadis (The Form of Space in Ancient Greece) and moves his thesis away from antiquity and ancient architecture, instead arguing that it can only be understood as a theory founded in modernity. In light of this, the author explores Doxiadis’ theory in relation to the work of the controversial Greek architect Dimitris Pikionis. This parallel investigation of the philosophical content of Doxiadis’ theory and the design principles of Pikionis’ work establishes a new frame of reference and creates a valuable and original interpretation of their work. Using innovative cross-disciplinary tools and methods which expand the historical boundaries of interwar modernism, the book restructures the ground of an alternative modernity that looks towards the future through a mirror that reflects the ancient past. From Doxiadis’ Theory to Pikionis’ Work: Reflections of Antiquity in Modern Architecture is fascinating reading for all scholars and students with an interest in modernism and antiquity, the history and theory of architecture, the history of ideas and aesthetics or town planning theory and design.

Author : Sarah Schrank,Didem Ekici
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317123453

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Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body by Sarah Schrank,Didem Ekici Pdf

Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body brings together cutting-edge scholarship examining the myriad ways that architects, urban planners, medical practitioners, and everyday people have applied modern ideas about health and the body to the spaces in which they live, work, and heal. The book’s contributors explore North American and European understandings of the relationship between physical movement, bodily health, technological innovation, medical concepts, natural environments, and architectural settings from the nineteenth century through the heyday of modernist architectural experimentation in the 1920s and 1930s and onward into the 1970s. Not only does the book focus on how professionals have engaged with the architecture of healing and the body, it also explores how urban dwellers have strategized and modified their living environments themselves to create a kind of vernacular modernist architecture of health in their homes, gardens, and backyards. This new work builds upon a growing interdisciplinary field incorporating the urban humanities, geography, architectural history, the history of medicine, and critical visual studies that reflects our current preoccupation with the body and its corresponding therapeutic culture.

Author : Ad Graafland
Publisher : 010 Publishers
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9064502897

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Architectural Bodies by Ad Graafland Pdf

Author : George Dodds,Robert Tavernor,Joseph Rykwert
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262041952

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Body and Building by George Dodds,Robert Tavernor,Joseph Rykwert Pdf

Essays on the changing relationship of the human body and architecture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780385509299

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The Architecture and Design of Man and Woman by Anonim Pdf

More than five hundred computer images capture the anatomy of the human body, revealing the construction and workings of each system of the body and rebuilding the body from the molecular level up.

Author : David Farrell Krell
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0791434095

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Archeticture by David Farrell Krell Pdf

Calls for rethinking architecture as a way of renegotiating our encounter with the world, taking into account the role of love and desire in all human making.

Author : Jean Claude Guimberteau,Colin Armstrong
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781805013082

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Architecture of Human Living Fascia by Jean Claude Guimberteau,Colin Armstrong Pdf

This unique book illustrates the structure of the fascia in the living human being. Dr Guimberteau's photographs provide a detailed account of fascial architecture. The accompanying text explains what the photographs mean, clarifies the importance of the fascia, and sets out the implications of these findings for everyday therapeutic practice. This beautifully illustrated book provides an introduction to Dr Guimberteau's groundbreaking work. He is the first person to publish video "movies" showing the structure of the fascia and how the fascia responds to. Based on what can be seen he has developed his own concept of the multifibrillar structural organisation of the body, wherein the "microvacuole" is the basic functional unit. His films confirm the continuity of fibres throughout the body thereby seeming to confirm the tensegrity theory, which provides the basis of many manual therapy and bodywork teachings. His work ties in with that of Donald Ingber on tensegrity within the cytoskeleton, and adds to the evidence linking the cytoskeleton to the extracellular matrix as described by james Oschman. The book and videos provide, for the first time, an explanatory introduction and explanation of these theories and link them to the visual evidence shown in the video. This material will be highly valued by osteopaths, massage therapists, chiropractors and others as it provides part of the scientific underpinning of their techniques, as well as an explanation of what is happening when they use those techniques to treat their clients. So Guimberteau's material confirms what manual therapists already believed but didn't fully understand. He has provided an explanation of how fascial layers slide over each other and how adjacent structures can move independently in different directions and at different speeds while maintaining the stability of the surrounding tissues.

Author : Michael Molinelli
Publisher : Independent Publisher
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : Kent C. Bloomer,Charles Willard Moore,Robert J. Yudell,Buzz Yudell
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 46,7 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 988 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000020213398

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Scribner's Monthly, an Illustrated Magazine for the People by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jules Gailhabaud
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UCBK:C045449980

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Ancient and Modern Architecture by Jules Gailhabaud Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Literature
ISBN : IND:32000000492506

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The Century Magazine Scribner's Monthly by Anonim Pdf