Sexton Architecture and the Body, Science and Culture

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-28185-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Architecture

Architecture and the Body, Science and Culture provides a forum for historians of the visual arts, archaeologists, and architects to reflect upon embodiment, spatiality, science, and architecture in pre-modern and modern cultural contexts. The chapters focus on European architectural history, reinvigorating a traditional survey-style chronology, ranging from Archaic Greece to post-war Europe, with scientifically-framed, body-centered content. The contributors point to new avenues of research in architectural and spatial history in investigating the role of the sciencized body. In so doing, they spatialize body theory and tie it to the experience of the built environment in ways that disturb traditional boundaries between the architectural container and the corporeally contained.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sexton, Kim

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.Architecture Before the Body? Articulation and Proportion in Archaic and Classical Greece 2.Bodies in Motion in Roman Asklepieia 3.The Crafted Bodies of Abbot Suger: Reconsidering the Matter of the Abbey Church at St Denis 4.Gothic Skins: Penitents at the Cathedral 5.Hybrid Bodies Move to Center Stage in Medieval Languedoc 6.Visceral Space: Dissection and Michelangelo’s Medici Chapel 7.Soaking in Architecture: Montaigne, the Baths and 16th Century Thermal Medicine Treatises 8.Space-Rhythm: On ‘rhythm’ as an Aesthetic and Epistemological Category in German Architectural History around 1900 9.Body and Space, Gothic and Cubism – Empathetic and Synthetic Qualities of Czech Abstraction 10.From Divine Distinction to "Normal": Constituting Disabled Bodies in Het Dorp, the Netherlands 11.Fortresses of War: Bunker Architecture and the Mechanized Body in Post-WWII France

Über Autor(innen)

Kim Sexton is associate professor of architectural history at the University of Arkansas. Her research focuses on the architecture and urban space of Italian city-states in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. She is the author of articles published in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and The Art Bulletin, and the upcoming book, The Loggia: Living on Stage in Early Modern Italy.