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" Body and building : "
edited by George Dodds and Robert Tavernor.
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BL
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990727
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b745097
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Body and building : : essays on the changing relation of body and architecture /\ edited by George Dodds and Robert Tavernor.
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Cambridge, Mass. :: MIT Press,, ©2002.
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427 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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0262041952
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: 0262541831
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: 9780262041959
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: 9780262541831
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Written for a symposium held at the University of Pennsylvania in March 1996 in honor of Jospeh Rykwert.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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"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).
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| Abstract
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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.
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Rykwert, Joseph, 1926-
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Rykwert, Joseph,1926-
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Architecture-- Human factors.
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Architecture-- Facteurs humains.
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Architecture-- Human factors.
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Architecture-- Human factors.
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Architecture.
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Architektur
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Facteur humain.
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Kongress
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Körper
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Bouwkunst.
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Harmonie (filosofie en sociologie)
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Menselijk lichaam.
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Proporties.
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| Dewey Classification
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720
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NA2542.4.B618 2002
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21.60bcl
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ARC 770fstub
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LH 67160rvk
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TU-023clc
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Dodds, George,1958-
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Rykwert, Joseph,1926-
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Tavernor, Robert.
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