Body and building
Subtitle: essays on the changing relation of body and architecture
By: edited by George Dodds and Robert Tavernor
Contributors: Rykwert, Joseph, 1926-
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 427
ISBN-13: 9781423729808
Subjects: Facteurs humains; Human factors; Architecture
Notes: Written for a symposium held at the University of Pennsylvania in March 1996 in honor of Jospeh Rykwert.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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