Author: Charalampos Politakis
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315512912
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
The human body has been used as both a model and metaphor in architecture since antiquity. This book explores how it has been an inspiration for the exterior form of architectural colossi through the years. It considers the body as a source of architectural and artistic representation and in doing so explores the results of such practices in colossal sculptures and architectural praxis within a philosophical discourse of space, time and media. Architectural Colossi and the Human Body discusses the role of Platonic and Cartesian philosophy and how philosophers such as Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, and theoreticians such as Frascari and Pallasmaa, have seen, described and analysed the human body and the role of architecture and perception. Drawing upon three key case studies and by employing theoretical ideas of Venturi and others, this book will provide an understanding of the role of anthromorphism and the relation and use of the human body with reference to selected architects and artists.
Architectural Colossi and the Human Body
Author: Charalampos Politakis
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315512912
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
The human body has been used as both a model and metaphor in architecture since antiquity. This book explores how it has been an inspiration for the exterior form of architectural colossi through the years. It considers the body as a source of architectural and artistic representation and in doing so explores the results of such practices in colossal sculptures and architectural praxis within a philosophical discourse of space, time and media. Architectural Colossi and the Human Body discusses the role of Platonic and Cartesian philosophy and how philosophers such as Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, and theoreticians such as Frascari and Pallasmaa, have seen, described and analysed the human body and the role of architecture and perception. Drawing upon three key case studies and by employing theoretical ideas of Venturi and others, this book will provide an understanding of the role of anthromorphism and the relation and use of the human body with reference to selected architects and artists.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315512912
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
The human body has been used as both a model and metaphor in architecture since antiquity. This book explores how it has been an inspiration for the exterior form of architectural colossi through the years. It considers the body as a source of architectural and artistic representation and in doing so explores the results of such practices in colossal sculptures and architectural praxis within a philosophical discourse of space, time and media. Architectural Colossi and the Human Body discusses the role of Platonic and Cartesian philosophy and how philosophers such as Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, and theoreticians such as Frascari and Pallasmaa, have seen, described and analysed the human body and the role of architecture and perception. Drawing upon three key case studies and by employing theoretical ideas of Venturi and others, this book will provide an understanding of the role of anthromorphism and the relation and use of the human body with reference to selected architects and artists.
Architecture and the Sciences
Author: Antoine Picon
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 9781568983653
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Since antiquity, the sciences have served as a source of images and metaphors for architecture and have had a direct influence on the shaping of built space. In recent years, architects have been looking again at science as a source of inspiration in the production of their designs and constructions. This volume evaluates the interconnections between the sciences and architecture from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Architecture and the Sciences shows how scientific paradigms have migrated to architecture through the appropriation of organic and mechanical models. Conversely, architecture has provided images for scientific and technological discourse. Accordingly, this volume investigates the status of the exchanges between the two domains.Contents include: Alessandra Ponte, Desert Testing; Martin Bressani, Violet-le-Duc's Optic; Georges Teyssot, Norm and Type: Variations on a Theme; Reinhold Martin, Organicism's Other; Catherine Ingraham, Why All These Birds? Birds in the Sky, Birds in the Hand; Antoine Picon, Architecture, Science, Technology and the Virtual Realm; and Felicity Scott, Encounters with the Face of America.
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 9781568983653
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Since antiquity, the sciences have served as a source of images and metaphors for architecture and have had a direct influence on the shaping of built space. In recent years, architects have been looking again at science as a source of inspiration in the production of their designs and constructions. This volume evaluates the interconnections between the sciences and architecture from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Architecture and the Sciences shows how scientific paradigms have migrated to architecture through the appropriation of organic and mechanical models. Conversely, architecture has provided images for scientific and technological discourse. Accordingly, this volume investigates the status of the exchanges between the two domains.Contents include: Alessandra Ponte, Desert Testing; Martin Bressani, Violet-le-Duc's Optic; Georges Teyssot, Norm and Type: Variations on a Theme; Reinhold Martin, Organicism's Other; Catherine Ingraham, Why All These Birds? Birds in the Sky, Birds in the Hand; Antoine Picon, Architecture, Science, Technology and the Virtual Realm; and Felicity Scott, Encounters with the Face of America.
The Architect
Author: Arthur Holland Forbes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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The Art and Architecture of India
Author: Benjamin Rowland
Publisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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American Architect and the Architectural Review
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 638
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 638
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The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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The Colossal Sculpture of the Cinquecento
Author: Virginia Bush
Publisher: Garland Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher: Garland Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal
Author: Stephen Denison Peet
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 748
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Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 748
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Architectural Excerpts
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 818
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The American Antiquarian
Author:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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