The inhabitable flesh of architecture / Marcos Cruz.

Main entry:

Cruz, Marcos, 1970-

Title & Author:

The inhabitable flesh of architecture / Marcos Cruz.

Publication:

Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2013]

Description:

xviii, 232 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 22 cm.

Series:

Design research in architecture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : body and flesh -- Design experiment I : Hyperdermis/walls for communicating people : I. Disgusting flesh -- II. Inhabitable interfaces -- III. Synthetic neoplasms -- Design experiment (final stage) : Hyperdermis cyborgian interfaces.

Summary:

"Today's architecture has failed the body with its long heritage of purity of form and aesthetic of cleanliness. A resurgence of interest in flesh, especially in art, has led to a politics of abjection, completely changing traditional aesthetics, and is now giving light to an alternative discussion about the body in architecture. This book is dedicated to a future vision of the body in architecture, questioning the contemporary relationship between our Human Flesh and the changing Architectural Flesh."-- back cover.

ISBN:

9781409469346 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1409469344 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture Human factors.
Architecture Aesthetics.
Architecture Facteurs humains.
Architecture Esthétique.
Architekturtheorie
Deformation
Mensch

Added entries:

Design research in architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 296890
Call No.: BIB 243208
Status: Available

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