Title & Author:

The body in architecture / editor, Deborah Hauptmann ; with contributions by Bart Akkerhuis [and others].

Publication:

Rotterdam : 010 Publishers, 2006.

Description:

379 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.

Series:

Delft School of Design series on architecture and urbanism

Notes:
Includes interview with Rem Koolhaas.
The body in the city : a discourse on cyberscience / M. Christine Boyer -- The urban image : becoming visible / Stephen Read -- Aestheticization as mediation / Michael Müller -- The task of art in the age of the world picture / Karsten Harries -- The ontology of dwelling / Leslie Jaye Kavanaugh -- The stoical body / Patrick Healy -- The b-b-b-body : block, blob, blur / Anthony Vidler -- Looking into the folds / Arie Graafland -- Monster practices : the (r)emergence of ajbect writing / Heidi Sohn -- Live-space / Scott Lash and Deborah Hauptmann -- Resistance is futile : the neurobiopolitics of consciousness / Warren Neidich -- Fluctuating spaces : Dryden Goodwin's video testaments / Simon Wallis -- Camera eye : a machine for projective practice in architecture / Arie Graafland and Deborah Hauptmann -- Glancing movements / Stefano Boeri -- Being in places / Mark Pimlott -- Urban labyrinth : rebuilding everyday life in Beijing's Baofang Hutong district / Qiang Sheng -- Urban re-vision : virtualities and the market facility of Bogotá / Juanita Fonseca -- Exchange request : urban interactions at Bogotá's Los Héroes Junction / Camilo Pinilla -- In-between spaces : Évora Portugal / Marta Mendonça -- 'Everything is choreography!' Experimental dance house : a study on human motion / Eric Havadi -- Rethinking the horizon : Paris and the olympic village as vertical city / Bart Akkerhuis -- New York, New York ... Rem Koolhaas and Joseph Beuys : two Europeans and their interventions in the 70s generic city : interview with Rem Koohlaas / Bettina Schürkamp.

Summary:

Issues surrounding the human body, with its intellectual and sensory capacities are recurring themes in architecture theory. Central to the project of humanism was the organizing of the body, its most spectacular achievement being the creation of a mathematics of seeing for the eye through perspective. Consequently, architectural discourse has dealt with a static concept of the body, an ideal 'whole', for which sensory and intellectual capacities do not correspond to present-day research in the sciences and aesthetic theories. Departing from these traditional notions, the theoretical disposition of the collection posits that in a contemporary reading on the very notion of 'body' it is necessary to understand that there are many bodies: individual, collective, mystical, corporate, institutional, animal, even the prosthetic body and the ethological body made up of movements of slowness and speed. The Body in Architecture presents a collection of both theoretical essays and architecture, urban & film based projects. Contributors include M. Christine Boyer, Karsten Harries, Anthony Vidler, Arie Graafland, Stefano Boeri, the video artist Dryden Goodwin and Rem Koolhaas.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9064505683 (paperback)
9789064505683 (paperback)

Subject:

Koolhaas, Rem Interviews.
Koolhaas, Rem Entretiens.
Koolhaas, Rem
Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Architecture in motion pictures.
Architecture and society.
Architecture Human factors.
Architecture Philosophie.
Architecture 21e siècle.
Architecture au cinéma.
Architecture et société.
Architecture Facteurs humains.
architectural theory.
Architecture, Modern
Architektur
Architekturtheorie
Körper
Bouwkunst.
Architectuurtheorieën.
Mensbeeld.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Interviews

Added entries:

Hauptmann, Deborah.
Akkerhuis, Bart.
Delft School of Design series on architecture and urbanism.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 250074
Call No.: NA2500 .B58 2006
Status: Available