Body and building : essays on the changing relation of body and architecture /
edited by George Dodds and Robert Tavernor.
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2002.
- 427 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Written for a symposium held at the University of Pennsylvania in March 1996 in honor of Jospeh Rykwert.
Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- George Baird -- "A Promise as Well as a Memory": Toward an Intellectual Biography ofJoseph Rykwert -- Dalibor Vesely -- The Architectonics of Embodiment -- John Onians -- Greek Temple and Greek Brain -- Mark Wilson Jones -- Doric Figuration -- Robert Tavernor -- Contemplating Perfection through Piero's Eyes -- Alina Payne -- Reclining Bodies: Figural Ornament in Renaissance Architecture -- Simon Pepper -- Body, Diagram, and Geometry in the Renaissance Fortress -- Harry Francis Mallgrave -- Dancing with Vitruvius: Corporeal Fantasies in Northern Classicism -- Vaughan Hart -- On Inigo Jones and the Stuart Legal Body: "Justice and Equity and Proportions Appertaining" -- Karsten Harries -- Sphere and Cross: Vitruvian Reflections on the Pantheon Type -- Alberto Perez-G6mez -- Charles-Etienne Briseux: The Musical Body and the Limits of Instrumentality in Architecture -- Richard Sennett -- The Foreigner -- Neil Leach -- Vitruvius Crucifixus: Architecture, Mimesis, and the Death Instinct -- Marcia F. Feuerstein -- Body and Building inside the Bauhaus's Darker Side: On Oskar Schlemmer -- George Dodds -- Desiring Landscapes/Landscapes of Desire: Scopic and Somatic in the Brion Sanctuary -- Marco Frascari -- A Tradition of Architectural Figures: A Search for Vita Beata -- David Leatherbarrow -- Sitting in the City, or The Body in the World -- William Braham and Paul Emmons -- Upright or Flexible? Exercising Posture in Modern Architecture -- Kenneth Frampton -- Corporeal Experience in the Architecture of Tadao Ando -- Epilogue -- Vittorio Gregotti (translated by George Dodds and Robert Tavernor) -- Joseph Rykwert: An Anthropologist of Architectural History?.