| Description |
[viii], 427 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction. "A promise as well as a memory": toward an intellectual biography of Joseph Rykwert / George Baird -- 2. The architectonics of embodiment / Dalibor Vesely --3. Greek temple and Greek brain / John Onians -- 4. Doric figuration / Mark Wilson Jones -- 5. Contemplating perfection through Piero's eyes / Robert Tavernor -- 6. Reclining bodies: figural ornament in renaissance architecture / Alina Payne -- 7. Body, diagram, and geometry in the renaissance fortress / Simon Pepper -- 8. Dancing with Vitruvius: corporeal fantasies in northern classicism / Harry Francis Mallgrave -- 9. On Inigo Jones and the Stuart legal body: "Justice and equity ... and proportions appertaining" / Vaughan Hart -- 10. Sphere and cross: Vitruvian reflections on the pantheon type / Karsten Harries -- 11. Charles-Etienne Briseux: the musical body and the limits of instrumentality in architecture / Alberto Pérez-Gómez -- 12. The foreigner / Richard Sennett -- 13. Vitruvius Crucifixus: Architecture, Mimesis, and the Death Instinct / Neil Leach -- 14. Body and Building inside the Bauhaus's Darker Side: On Oskar Schlemmer / Marcia F. Feuerstein -- 15. Desiring Landscapes/Landscapes of Desire: Scopic and Somatic in the Brion Sanctuary / George Dodds -- 16. A Tradition of Architectural Figures: A Search for Vita Beata / Marco Frascari -- 17. Sitting in the City, or The Body in the World / David Leatherbarrow -- 18. Upright or Flexible? Exercising Posture in Modern Architecture / William Braham and Paul Emmons -- 19. Corporeal Experience in the Architecture of Tadao Ando / Kenneth Frampton -- 20. Epilogue. Vittorio Gregotti (translated by George Dodds and Robert Tavernor) Joseph Rykwert: An Anthropologist of Architectural History? |
| Summary |
Since Greek antiquity the human body has been regarded as a microcosm of universal harmony. In this book an international group of architects, architectural historians, and theorists examines the relation of the human body and architecture. The essays view well-known buildings, texts, paintings, ornaments, and landscapes from the perspective of the bodys̕ physical, psychological, and spiritual needs and pleasures. Topics include Greek temples; the churches of Tadao Ando in Japan; Renaissance fortresses and paintings; the body, space, and dwelling in Wrights̕ and Schindlers̕ houses in North America; the corporeal dimension of Carlo Scarpas̕ landscapes and gardens; theory from Vitruvius to the Renaissance and Enlightenment; and Freudian psychoanalysis. The essays are framed by an appreciation of architectural historian and theorist Joseph Rykwerts̕ influential work on the subject |
| Notes |
Written for a symposium held at the University of Pennsylvania in March 1996, in honor of Joseph Rykwert |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Architecture -- Human factors.
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| Genre/Form |
Festschriften.
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| Author |
Rykwert, Joseph, 1926-
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Tavernor, Robert.
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Dodds, George, 1958-
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| LC no. |
2001030604 |
| ISBN |
0262041952 : |
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