عنوان

Body and building :

(Number (ISBN

0262041952

(Number (ISBN

0262541831

(Number (ISBN

9780262041959

(Number (ISBN

9780262541831

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b745097

Title Proper

Body and building :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

essays on the changing relation of body and architecture /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by George Dodds and Robert Tavernor.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cambridge, Mass. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

MIT Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2002.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

427 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Written for a symposium held at the University of Pennsylvania in March 1996 in honor of Jospeh Rykwert.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

"A promise as well as a memory": toward an intellectual biography of Joseph Rykwert / George Baird -- The architectonics of embodiment / Dalibor Vesely -- Greek temple and Greek brain / John Onians -- Doric figuration / Mark Wilson Jones -- Contemplating perfection through Piero's eyes / Robert Tavernor -- Reclining bodies: figural ornament in Renaissance architecture / Alina Payne -- Body, diagram, and geometry in the Renaissance fortress / Simon Pepper -- Dancing with Vitruvius: corporeal fantasies in northern classicism / Harry Francis Mallgrave -- On Inigo Jones and the Stuart legal body: "Justice and equity ... and proportions appertaining" / Vaughan Hart -- Sphere and cross: Vitruvian reflections on the Pantheon type / Karsten Harries -- Charles-Etienne Briseux: the musical body and the limits of instrumentality in architecture / Alberto Pérez-Gómez -- The foreigner / Richard Sennett -- Vitruvius Crucifixus: architecture, Mimesis, and the death instinct / Neil Leach -- Body and building inside the Bauhaus's darker side: on Oskar Schlemmer / Marcia F. Feuerstein -- Desiring landscapes/landscapes of desire: scopic and somatic in the Brion Sanctuary / George Dodds -- A tradition of architectural figures: a search for Vita Beata / Marco Frascari -- Sitting in the city, or The body in the world / David Leatherbarrow -- Upright or flexible? Exercising posture in modern architecture / William Braham and Paul Emmons -- Corporeal experience in the architecture of Tadao Ando / Kenneth Frampton -- Joseph Rykwert: an anthropologist of architectural history? / Vittorio Gregotti (translated by George Dodds and Robert Tavernor).

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Text of Note

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.

Rykwert, Joseph, 1926-

Rykwert, Joseph,1926-

Architecture-- Human factors.

Architecture-- Facteurs humains.

Architecture-- Human factors.

Architecture-- Human factors.

Architecture.

Architektur

Bouwkunst.

Facteur humain.

Harmonie (filosofie en sociologie)

Kongress

Körper

Menselijk lichaam.

Proporties.

Number

720

Number

720.01

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Class number

Class number

Class number

Class number

System Code

System Code

System Code

System Code

Dodds, George,1958-

Rykwert, Joseph,1926-

Tavernor, Robert.

Date of Transaction

20201204052913.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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