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Author(s): Kim Sexton (editor)

ISBN(s): 9780367501938, 0367501937

Edition: 1

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Year: 2020

Language: English

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ISBN 10: 0367501937
ISBN 13: 9780367501938
Author: Kim Sexton

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.

Architecture and the Body Science and Culture 1st Edition Table of contents:

1 Architecture before the body? Articulation and proportion in Archaic and Classical Greece

2 Healing in motion: locotherapy and the architecture of the Pergamene Asklepieion in the second century CE

3 The crafted bodies of Suger: reconsidering the matter of St-Denis

4 Gothic skins: penitents at the cathedral

5 Hybrid bodies move to center stage on a brothel in medieval Languedoc

6 Visceral space: dissection and Michelangelo’s Medici Chapel

7 Soaking in architecture: Montaigne, thermal baths and sixteenth-century medical treatises

8 Academic bodies and anatomical architecture in early modern Bologna

9 The eye of modernity: form, proportion and rhythm in German architectural history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

10 Body and space, Gothic and Cubism: a Czech avant-garde between empathy, aesthetics and science

11 Rehabilitating the invalid body: architecture and citizenship in Jaap Bakema’s design for a Dutch postwar village for the disabled