Body and Building: Essays on the Changing Relation of Body and Architecture (The MIT Press)

Essays on the changing relationship of the human body and architecture.Since Greek antiquity, the human body has been regarded as a microcosm of universal harmony. In this book, an international group of architects, architectural historians, and theorists examines the relation of the human body and architecture. The essays view well-known buildings, texts, paintings, ornaments, and landscapes from the perspective of the body's physical, psychological, and spiritual needs and pleasures. Topics include Greek temples; the churches of Tadao Ando in Japan; Renaissance fortresses and paintings; the body, space, and dwelling in Wright's and Schindler's houses in North America; the corporeal dimension of Carlo Scarpa's landscapes and gardens; theory from Vitruvius to the Renaissance and Enlightenment; and Freudian psychoanalysis. The essays are framed by an appreciation of architectural historian and theorist Joseph Rykwert's influential work on the subject. A Promise As Well As A Memory: Toward An Intellectual Biography Of Joseph Rykwert / George Baird -- The Architectonics Of Embodiment / Dalibor Vesely -- Greek Temple And Greek Brain / John Onians -- Doric Figuration / Mark Wilson Jones -- Contemplating Perfection Through Piero's Eyes / Robert Tavernor -- Reclining Bodies: Figural Ornament In Renaissance Architecture / Alina Payne -- Body, Diagram, And Geometry In The Renaissance Fortress / Simon Pepper -- Dancing With Vitruvius: Corporeal Fantasies In Northern Classicism / Harry Francis Mallgrave -- On Inigo Jones And The Stuart Legal Body: Justice And Equity ... And Proportions Appertaining / Vaughan Hart -- Sphere And Cross: Vitruvian Reflections On The Pantheon Type / Karsten Harries -- Charles-etienne Briseux: The Musical Body And The Limits Of Instrumentality In Architecture / Alberto Pérez-gómez -- The Foreigner / Richard Sennett -- Vitruvius Crucifixus: Architecture, Mimesis, And The Death Instinct / Neil Leach -- Body And Building Inside The Bauhaus's Darker Side: On Oskar Schlemmer / Marcia F. Feuerstein -- Desiring Landscapes/landscapes Of Desire: Scopic And Somatic In The Brion Sanctuary / George Dodds -- A Tradition Of Architectural Figures: A Search For Vita Beata / Marco Frascari -- Sitting In The City, Or The Body In The World / David Leatherbarrow -- Upright Or Flexible? Exercising Posture In Modern Architecture / William Braham And Paul Emmons -- Corporeal Experience In The Architecture Of Tadao Ando / Kenneth Frampton -- Joseph Rykwert: An Anthropologist Of Architectural History? / Vittorio Gregotti (translated By George Dodds And Robert Tavernor). Edited By George Dodds And Robert Tavernor. Papers Written For A Symposium Held At The University Of Pennsylvania In March 1996 In Honor Of Jospeh Rykwert. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [369]-395) And Index. Bibliography Of Joseph Rykert (p. [399]-403). Preface 9 1 George Baird Introduction “A Promise as Well as a Memory”: Toward an Intellectual Biography of Joseph Rykwert 13 2 Dalibor Vesely The Architectonics of Embodiment 39 3 John Onians Greek Temple and Greek Brain 55 4 Mark Wilson Jones Doric Figuration 75 5 Robert Tavernor Contemplating Perfection through Piero’s Eyes 89 6 Alina Payne Reclining Bodies: Figural Ornament in Renaissance Architecture 105 7 Simon Pepper Body, Diagram, and Geometry in the Renaissance Fortress 125 8 Harry Francis Mallgrave Dancing with Vitruvius: Corporeal Fantasies in Northern Classicism 137 9 Vaughan Hart On Inigo Jones and the Stuart Legal Body: “Justice and Equity . . . and Proportions Appertaining” 149 10 Karsten Harries Sphere and Cross: Vitruvian Re.ections on the Pantheon Type 161 11 Alberto Pérez-Gómez Charles-Etienne Briseux: The Musical Body and the Limits of Instrumentality in Architecture 175 12 Richard Sennett The Foreigner 201 13 Neil Leach Vitruvius Cruci.xus: Architecture, Mimesis, and the Death Instinct 221 14 Marcia F. Feuerstein Body and Building inside the Bauhaus’s Darker Side: On Oskar Schlemmer 237 15 George Dodds Desiring Landscapes/Landscapes of Desire: Scopic and Somatic in the Brion Sanctuary 249 16 Marco Frascari A Tradition of Architectural Figures: A Search for Vita Beata 269 17 David Leatherbarrow Sitting in the City, or The Body in the World 279 18 William W. Braham and Paul Emmons Upright or Flexible? Exercising Posture in Modern Architecture 301 19 Kenneth Frampton Corporeal Experience in the Architecture of Tadao Ando 315 20 Vittorio Gregotti Epilogue Joseph Rykwert: An Anthropologist of Architectural History? 331 Notes 337 References 379 Bibliography of Joseph Rykwert 409 Contributors 415 Index 423 Essays on the changing relationship of the human body and architecture. Since Greek antiquity, the human body has been regarded as a microcosm of universal harmony. In this book, an international group of architects, architectural historians, and theorists examines the relation of the human body and architecture. The essays view well-known buildings, texts, paintings, ornaments, and landscapes from the perspective of the body's physical, psychological, and spiritual needs and pleasures. Topics include Greek temples; the churches of Tadao Ando in Japan; Renaissance fortresses and paintings; the body, space, and dwelling in Wright's and Schindler's houses in North America; the corporeal dimension of Carlo Scarpa's landscapes and gardens; theory from Vitruvius to the Renaissance and Enlightenment; and Freudian psychoanalysis. The essays are framed by an appreciation of architectural historian and theorist Joseph Rykwert's influential work on the subject

Since Greek antiquity, the human body has been regarded as a microcosm of universal harmony. In this book, an international group of architects, architectural historians, and theorists examines the relation of the human body and architecture. The essays view well-known buildings,texts, paintings, ornaments, and landscapes from the perspective of the body's physical,psychological, and spiritual needs and pleasures. Topics include Greek temples; the churches of Tadao Ando in Japan; Renaissance fortresses and paintings; the body, space, and dwelling in Wright's and Schindler's houses in North America; the corporeal dimension of Carlo Scarpa's landscapes and gardens; theory from Vitruvius to the Renaissance and Enlightenment; and Freudian psychoanalysis.

The essays are framed by an appreciation of architectural historian and theorist Joseph Rykwert's influential work on the subject.

Annotation. Since Greek antiquity, the human body has been regarded as a microcosm of universal harmony. In this book, an international group of architects, architectural historians, and theorists examines the relation of the human body and architecture. The essays view well-known buildings, texts, paintings, ornaments, and landscapes from the perspective of the body's physical, psychological, and spiritual needs and pleasures. Topics include Greek temples; the churches of Tadao Ando in Japan; Renaissance fortresses and paintings; the body, space, and dwelling in Wright's and Schindler's houses in North America; the corporeal dimension of Carlo Scarpa's landscapes and gardens; theory from Vitruvius to the Renaissance and Enlightenment; and Freudian psychoanalysis. The essays are framed by an appreciation of architectural historian and theorist Joseph Rykwert's influential work on the subject