Architectural Colossi and the Human Body - Buildings and Metaphors

List of contents

Introduction
1. Towards a First Syllogism
2. Towards a Second Syllogism
3. Fashionable Illusions
4. The Object as Subject: These are not Binoculars
5. Skeletal Apotheosis of the Human Body
6. Complexities and Developments

About the author

Charalampos Politakis graduated from the University of Ioannina, Greece (BA) and the University of Salford, UK (MA). He researched his PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, completing in 2014. He has taught at the Manchester School of Architecture and the University of Central Lancashire, UK. Charalampos is a multidisciplinary artist that has participated in several international exhibitions.

Summary

This book explores how the human body was an inspiration for the exterior form of architectural colossi through the years.It considers the body as a source of architectural and artistic representation and explores the results of such practices in colossal sculptures and architectural praxis within a philosophical discourse of space, time and media.

Product details

• Authors: Charalampos Politakis, Charalampos (Artist and Researcher Politakis
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.08.2017
• EAN: 9781138201170
• ISBN: 978-1-138-20117-0
• No. of pages: 164
• Series: Routledge Research in Architecture; Routledge Research in Architecture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; ARCHITECTURE / History / General, History of Architecture