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Architecture and the Body, Science and Culture (Paperback)
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Architecture and the Body, Science and Culture (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Architecture
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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.
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