The Inhabitable Flesh of Architecture

ISBN-13: 9781138473393 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Marcos Cruz

Opis

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.

Recenzje

’Recently in many architectural schools efforts intensified to further develop architectural research. Exciting new avenues are being explored, relying upon the design skills of architects and urban designers, combining them with intellectual rigor and in-depth thinking, in order to imagine new spatialities and to unfold hitherto unknown spatial experiences. This series highlights the innovative results of these explorations, opening up a new world of path-breaking research.’ Hilde Heynen, University of Leuven, Belgium

Spis treści

List of Images (According to their provenance), Acknowledgements, Photo Acknowledgements, Introduction: Body and Flesh, Design Experiment I Hyperdermis/Walls for Communicating People, Section I: Disgusting Flesh, Section II: Inhabitable Interfaces, Section III: Synthetic Neoplasms, Design Experiment (Final Stage): Hyperdermis Cyborgian Interfaces, Conclusion, Bibliographic References, Index

O autorze

Marcos Cruz is Director of the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, UK.