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1 online resource (427 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Note |
Written for a symposium held at the University of Pennsylvania in March 1996 in honor of Jospeh Rykwert. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
"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). |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Architecture -- Human factors.
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Architecture -- Human factors. |
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Electronic books.
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Festschriften.
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Festschriften.
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Dodds, George, 1958-
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Tavernor, Robert.
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Rykwert, Joseph, 1926-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Body and building. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002 0262041952 (DLC) 2001030604 (OCoLC)46462907 |
| ISBN |
9780262271813 (electronic book) |
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0262271818 (electronic book) |
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1423729803 (electronic book) |
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9781423729808 (electronic book) |
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