Architecture and the Body, Science and Culture

List of contents

Introduction: Architecture, the Body, and Science Kim Sexton 1. Architecture Before the Body? Lian Chang 2. Healing in Motion Ece Okay 3. The Crafted Bodies of Suger Jason Crow 4. Gothic Skins Laura Hollengreen 5. Hybrid Bodies Move to Center Stage in Medieval Languedoc Catherine Barrett 6. Visceral Space Chloe Costello 7. Soaking in Architecture Lisa Tannenbaum 8. Academic Bodies and Anatomical Architecture in Early Modern Bologna Kim Sexton 9. The Eye of Modernity Tobias Teutenberg 10. Body and Space, Gothic and Cubism Frank Bauer 11. Rehabilitating the Invalid Body Wanda Katja Liebermann 12. Sacred Fortresses Paula Burleigh Epilogue Kim Sexton Bibliography. Index

About the author

Kim Sexton is an associate professor of architectural history at the University of Arkansas, USA. Her research focuses on the architecture and urban space of Italian city-states in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. She is the author of articles published in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and The Art Bulletin, and the upcoming book, The Loggia: Living on Stage in Early Modern Italy.

Summary

Architecture and the Body, Science and Culture provides a forum for historians of the visual arts, archaeologists, and architects to reflect upon embodiment, spatiality, science, and architecture in pre-modern and modern cultural contexts.

Product details

• Authors: Kim Sexton, Kim (University of Arkansas Sexton
• Assisted by: Kim Sexton (Editor), Kim (University of Arkansas Sexton (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781138188822
• ISBN: 978-1-138-18882-2
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: Routledge Research in Architecture; Routledge Research in Architecture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Cultural Studies, European History, Psychology, ARCHITECTURE / General, Gender studies, gender groups, Feminism and feminist theory, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration, Theory of architecture, Conservation of buildings and building materials