Anybody : [conference ... at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in June 1996

The Widespread Practice Of Psychoanalysis, The Development Of Genetic Engineering, And The Raised Consciousness Of The Female Body Have Altered Not Only The Traditional Idea Of Body But Also Of How We Inhabit The Body, And Hence Make And Inhabit Space. How Does The New Understanding Of The Body Relate To Space? How Does Architecture Adjust To This New Idea Of Body? When Does The Body Become The Body Politic? In Anybody, These And Other Questions Are Argued By Thirty Essayists. Absent Bodies / Ignasi De Solá-morales -- For(m) Example / Paulo Mendes Da Rocha -- Incorporation / Sylviane Agacinski -- The Demiurgomorphic Contour / Arata Isozaki And Akira Asada -- From Public Space To The Fortified Enclave / Jean Franco -- City And Fiesta : The Carnival Of Salvador And The Nangô City / Alberto Rafael Cordiviola And Mauricio Virgens -- The Body Politic / Marta Oyhanarte -- Architecture In A Reconfigured Body Politique / Masao Miyoshi -- Imaginary North/south / Armando Silva -- Extremities : The Urban Body In Chaos / Justo Solsona -- Cyberspace, Virtuality, And The Real : Some Architectural Reflections / Elizabeth Grosz -- Casa De Retiro / Glenda Kapstein -- Absent Totality / Frederic Jameson -- A Body Of Work / Guilermo Kuitca -- Indigestion / Elizabeth Diller -- Some Sense Of Ground / John Rajchman -- From Body To Blob / Greg Lynn -- The Political Economy Of Belonging And The Logic Of Relation / Brian Massumi -- Immaterial Architecture / Enrique Norten -- Toward A Disembodied Architectural Culture / Jorge Francisco Liernur -- Forget Heisenberg / Alejandro Zaera-polo -- The Mirror And The Cloak / Fernando Pérez Oyarzun --the Medical Body In Modern Architecture / Beatriz Colomina -- Zones Of Undecidability : The Interstitial Figure / Peter Eisenman -- The End Of Becoming / Renato Rizzi -- Yes, But ... / Ben Van Berkel. Edited By Cynthia C. Davidson. Anybody Is The Sixth In A Series Of 11 Planned Volumes Documenting The Annual International, Cross-disciplinary Conferences Being Sponsored By Anyone Corporation To Investigate The Condition Of Architecture At The End Of The Millennium. The Vitruvian Man, the Golden Section, and the Modular Man were once seen as idealized, iconic representations of the relationship of the human body to architecture. But the widespread practice of psychoanalysis, the development of genetic engineering, and the raised consciousness of the female body have altered not only the traditional idea of body but also how we inhabit the body, and how we make and inhabit space. How does the new understanding of the body relate to space? How does architecture adjust to this new idea of body? When does the body become the body politic? In Anybody , these and other questions are argued by thirty essayists, including architects Peter Eisenman, Arata Isozaki, Ben van Berkel, Enrique Norten, and Alejandro Zaero-Polo, and critics Fredric Jameson, Sylviane Agacinski, Elizabeth Grosz, Beatriz Colomina, and Brian Massumi. Anybody is the sixth book in the ongoing series that began in 1991 with Anyone and was followed by Anywhere , Anyway , Anyplace , and Anywise . Each volume is based on a conference in which architects, philosophers, historians, theoreticians, artists, and intellectuals come together to present papers and discuss a particular theme from a multicultural and multidisciplinary perspective. The conference upon which Anybody is based took place at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in June 1996. Anybody will be followed by Anyhow , Anytime , Anymore , and Anything .