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Author : Kent C. Bloomer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 18,26 MB
Release : 1977-01-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0300021429
Traces the significance of the human body in architecture from its early place as the divine organizing principle to its present near elimination
Author : Kent C. Bloomer
Publisher :
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 42,99 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Architectural design
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Author : Eleni Bastéa
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,77 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780826332691
An international study of cultural relationships with built environments.
Author : Sarah Schrank
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 20,22 MB
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1317123468
Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body brings together cutting-edge scholarship examining the myriad ways that architects, urban planners, medical practitioners, and everyday people have applied modern ideas about health and the body to the spaces in which they live, work, and heal. The book’s contributors explore North American and European understandings of the relationship between physical movement, bodily health, technological innovation, medical concepts, natural environments, and architectural settings from the nineteenth century through the heyday of modernist architectural experimentation in the 1920s and 1930s and onward into the 1970s. Not only does the book focus on how professionals have engaged with the architecture of healing and the body, it also explores how urban dwellers have strategized and modified their living environments themselves to create a kind of vernacular modernist architecture of health in their homes, gardens, and backyards. This new work builds upon a growing interdisciplinary field incorporating the urban humanities, geography, architectural history, the history of medicine, and critical visual studies that reflects our current preoccupation with the body and its corresponding therapeutic culture.
Author : Robert Bevan
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 27,98 MB
Release : 2007-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1861896387
Crumbled shells of mosques in Iraq, the bombing of British cathedrals in World War II, the fall of the World Trade Center towers on September 11: when architectural totems such as these are destroyed by conflicts and the ravages of war, more than mere buildings are at stake. The Destruction of Memory reveals the extent to which a nation weds itself to its landscape; Robert Bevan argues that such destruction not only shatters a nation’s culture and morale but is also a deliberate act of eradicating a culture’s memory and, ultimately, its existence. Bevan combs through world history to highlight a range of wars and conflicts in which the destruction of architecture was pivotal. From Cortez’s razing of Aztec cities to the carpet bombings of Dresden and Tokyo in World War II to the war in the former Yugoslavia, The Destruction of Memory exposes the cultural war that rages behind architectural annihilation, revealing that in this subliminal assault lies the complex aim of exterminating a people. He provocatively argues for “the fatally intertwined experience of genocide and cultural genocide,” ultimately proposing the elevation of cultural genocide to a crime punishable by international law. In an age in which Frank Gehry, I. M. Pei, and Frank Lloyd Wright are revered and yet museums and temples of priceless value are destroyed in wars around the world, Bevan challenges the notion of “collateral damage,” arguing that it is in fact a deliberate act of war.
Author : Michael Molinelli
Publisher : Independent Publisher
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,24 MB
Release : 2019-03-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781792305382
ARCHITECTURE OF THE BODY, SOUL, AND MIND explores the three greatest movements of western architecture to see how their concepts of beauty were formed by their philosophers. The book makes the case that each style was rooted in a particular aspect of humanity which might explain their enduring appeal. Find out how Greek architecture was based on the body; Gothic architecture was based on the soul; and Modern Rationalist architecture was based on the mind.
Author : Marc Treib
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,63 MB
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1134724454
Architecture and designed landscapes serve as grand mnemonic devices that record and transmit vital aspects of culture and history. Spatial Recall casts a broad net over the concept of memory and gives a variety of perspectives from twelve internationally noted scholars, practicing designers, and artists such as Juhani Pallasmaa, Adriaan Geuze, Susan Schwartzenberg, Georges Descombes and Esther da Costa Meyer. Essays range from broad topics of message and audience to specific ones of landscape production. Beautifully illustrated, Spatial Recall is a comprehensive view of memory in the built environment, how we have read it in the past, and how we can create it in the future. Please note this is book is now printed digitally.
Author : Robert Harbison
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 31,80 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262581707
Robert Harbison offers a novel interpretation of what architectural theory might look like. The title is based on Wallace Stevens' "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", and like the poem, Harbison's work is a composite structure built of oblique meanings and shifts that give a portrait of architecture in which symbol and metaphor coexist. 10 illustrations.
Author : Anthony Ward
Publisher :
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 50,6 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Architects
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Author : Gregory Caicco
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,61 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781584656531
Architecture and environmental design are among the last professional fields to develop a sustained and nuanced discussion concerning ethics. Hemmed in by politics and powerful clients on one side and the often unscrupulous practices of the construction industry on the other, environmental designers have been traditionally reluctant to address ethical issues head on. And yet the rapid urbanization of the world's population continues to swell into new megacities, each less healthy, welcoming, secure, or environmentally sustainable than the next. Green, carbon-reduced, and sustainable building practices are important ways architects have recently responded to the symptoms of the crisis, but are these efforts really addressing the core issues? Taking the Dine (Navajo) "Hogan Song"--a song used to protect and nourish the personhood of newly constructed dwellings--as their inspiration, the architects, philosophers, poets, and other contemporary scholars contributing to this volume demonstrate that a deeper, more radical change in our relationship to the built world needs to occur. While offering a careful critique of modernist, corporate, or techno-enthralled design practices, these essays investigate an alternative "relational ecology" whose wisdom draws from ancient and often-marginalized voices, if not the whisperings of the earth itself. Contributors include: Richard Kearney, Alberto Perez-Gomez, Juhani Pallasmaa, Karsten Harries, Edward Casey, Susan Stewart, David Abram, Stacy Alaimo, Jace and Laura Weaver, Philip Sheldrake, and Sebnem Yucel Young.