Undesigning The Bath

Author : Leonard Koren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1880656248

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Undesigning the Bath by Leonard Koren Pdf

Author : Christie Pearson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : Leonard Koren
Publisher : Imperfect Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Artists' books
ISBN : 1880656590

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Thirteen Books by Leonard Koren Pdf

An author and book designer offers a candid look at his own creations.

Author : Julia Twigg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781134629541

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Bathing - the Body and Community Care by Julia Twigg Pdf

Community care lies at the intersection of day-to-day life and the public world of service provision. Using the lens of one particular activity - bathing - this book explores what happens when the public world of professionals and service provision enters the lives of older and disabled people. In doing so it addresses wider issues concerning the management of the body, the meaning of carework and the significance of body care in the ordering of daily life. Bathing - the Body and Community Care provides an engaging text for students and will be of interest to a wide range of audiences, both social science and health science students and nursing and allied professionals

Author : Nathaniel Coleman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781474287739

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Materials and Meaning in Architecture by Nathaniel Coleman Pdf

Interweaving architecture, philosophy and cultural history, Materials and Meaning in Architecture develops a rich and multi-dimensional exploration of materials and materiality, in an age when architectural practice seems otherwise preoccupied with image and visual representation. Arguing that architecture is primarily experienced by the whole body, rather than chiefly with the eyes, this broad-ranging study shows how the most engaging built works are as tactile as they are sensuous, communicating directly with the bodily senses, especially touch. It explores the theme of 'material imagination' and the power of establishing 'place identity' in an architect's work, to consider the enduring expressive possibilities of material use in architecture. The book's chapters can be dipped into, each individual chapter providing close readings of built works by selected modern masters (Scarpa, Zumthor, Williams and Tsien), insights into key texts and theories (Ruskin, Loos, Bachelard), or short cultural histories of materials (wood, brick, concrete, steel, and glass). And yet, taken together, the chapters build to a powerful book-length argument about how meaning accrues to materials through time, and about the need to reinsert the bodily experience of materiality into architectural design. It is thus also, in part, a manifesto: arguing for architecture to act as a bulwark against the tide of an increasingly depersonalised built environment. With insights for a wide range of readers, ranging from students through to researchers and professional designers, Materials and Meaning in Architecture will cause theorists to rethink their assumptions and designers to see new potential for their projects.

Author : Claudia Mareis,Moritz Greiner-Petter,Michael Renner
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Design
ISBN : 9783839461044

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Critical by Design? by Claudia Mareis,Moritz Greiner-Petter,Michael Renner Pdf

In its constructive and speculative nature, design has the critical potential to reshape prevalent socio-material realities. At the same time, design is inevitably normative, if not often violent, as it stabilises the past, normalises the present, and precludes just and sustainable futures. The contributions rethink concepts of critique that influence the field of design, question inherent blind spots of the discipline, and expand understandings of what critical design practices could be. With contributions from design theory, practice and education, art theory, philosophy, and informatics, »Critical by Design?« aims to question and unpack the ambivalent tensions between design and critique.

Author : Marc Peter Keane
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press, Inc.
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780893469863

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The Art of Setting Stones by Marc Peter Keane Pdf

In Japanese gardens, composition follows from placement of the first stone; all elements and plantings become interconnected. These eight essays on Kyoto gardens similarly begin with keen description and build into richly meditative excursions into art, Buddhism, nature, and science. Landscape architect Marc Keane shows how Japanese gardens are both a microcosm of the natural universe and a clear expression of our humanity, mirroring how we think, worship, and organize our lives and communities. Filled with passages of alluring beauty, this is a truly transcendent book about "experiencing" Japanese design. Marc Peter Keane has lived in Kyoto for 17 years and is author of Japanese Garden Design. He designs residential, company, and temple gardens.

Author : Lothar Peter Maier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3408248

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A Spa Across Cultures by Lothar Peter Maier Pdf

Author : Leonard Koren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1611720494

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How to Take a Japanese Bath by Leonard Koren Pdf

An intoxicating, illustrated guide to Japan's ritual of hot-tub bathing.

Author : Emile H. L. Aarts,Stefano Marzano
Publisher : 010 Publishers
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9064505020

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The New Everyday by Emile H. L. Aarts,Stefano Marzano Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015036316290

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Graphis by Anonim Pdf

Author : Susannah Marriott
Publisher : Spruce
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1840726199

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The Art of the Bath by Susannah Marriott Pdf

For many people a soothing bath can solve, or at least ease, a huge amount of worries, ills or complaints. Its invigorating nature is used the world over to calm troubles or as a place to retreat to escape the hassles of everyday life. This tranquil little book is split into two parts, firstly looking at everything you could possibly need to make the perfect bath, ranging from candles and incense; oils and essential oils; and towels, to loofahs and body brushes; music, reading matter, and drinks. Part two concentrates on luxurious home bathing, providing recipes, tips, and treats. Scattered throughout are snippets of history, lore, and culture gathered from bathing traditions the world over, plus evocative quotes and wonderful images to accentuate the wonderfully restorative quality of the bath.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X006002332

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Blueprint by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lyndon J. Dominique
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460406137

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The Woman of Colour by Lyndon J. Dominique Pdf

The Woman of Colour is a unique literary account of a black heiress’ life immediately after the abolition of the British slave trade. Olivia Fairfield, the biracial heroine and orphaned daughter of a slaveholder, must travel from Jamaica to England, and as a condition of her father’s will either marry her Caucasian first cousin or become dependent on his mercenary elder brother and sister-in-law. As Olivia decides between these two conflicting possibilities, her letters recount her impressions of Britain and its inhabitants as only a black woman could record them. She gives scathing descriptions of London, Bristol, and the British, as well as progressive critiques of race, racism, and slavery. The narrative follows her life from the heights of her arranged marriage to its swift descent into annulment and destitution, only to culminate in her resurrection as a self-proclaimed “widow” who flouts the conventional marriage plot. The appendices, which include contemporary reviews of the novel, historical documents on race and inheritance in Jamaica, and examples of other women of colour in early British prose fiction, will further inspire readers to rethink issues of race, gender, class, and empire from an African woman’s perspective.

Author : Karen Herzoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Readers (Primary)
ISBN : 0026743280

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The Missing Flute by Karen Herzoff Pdf

Lewis searches several places in his home before he finds his missing flute.