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The Inhabitable Flesh of Architecture (Hardcover)
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The Inhabitable Flesh of Architecture (Hardcover)
Series: Design Research in Architecture
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Today's architecture has failed the body with its long heritage of
purity of form and aesthetic of cleanliness. A resurgence of
interest in flesh, especially in art, has led to a politics of
abjection, completely changing traditional aesthetics, and is now
giving light to an alternative discussion about the body in
architecture. This book is dedicated to a future vision of the body
in architecture, questioning the contemporary relationship between
our Human Flesh and the changing Architectural Flesh. Through the
analysis and design of a variety of buildings and projects, Flesh
is proposed as a concept that extends the meaning of skin, one of
architecture's most fundamental metaphors. It seeks to challenge a
common misunderstanding of skin as a flat and thin surface. In a
time when a pervasive discourse about the impact of digital
technologies risks turning the architectural skin ever more
disembodied, this book argues for a thick embodied flesh by
exploring architectural interfaces that are truly inhabitable.
Different concepts of Flesh are investigated, not only concerning
the architectural and aesthetic, but also the biological aspects.
The latter is materialised in form of Synthetic Neoplasms, which
are proposed as new semi-living entities, rather than more commonly
derived from scaled-up analogies between biological systems and
larger scale architectural constructs. These 'neoplasmatic'
creations are identified as partly designed object and partly
living material, in which the line between the natural and the
artificial is progressively blurred. Hybrid technologies and
interdisciplinary work methodologies are thus required, and lead to
a revision of our current architectural practice.
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