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The Vitruvian Man, the Golden Section, and the Modular Man were once seen as idealized, iconic representations of the relationship of the human body to architecture. However, the widespread practice of psychoanalysis, the development of genetic engineering, and the raised consciousness of the female body have altered not only the traditional idea of body but also how we inhabit the body, and how we make and inhabit space. How does the new understanding of the body relate to space? How does architecture adjust to this new idea of body? When does the body become the body politic? In this volume these and other questions are argued by 30 essayists, including architects Peter Eisenman, Arata Isozaki, Ben van Berkel, Enrique Norten, and Alejandro Zaero-Polo, and critics Fredric Jameson, Sylviane Agacinski, Elizabeth Grosz, Beatriz Colomina, and Brian Massumi.
ISBN-13

9780262540889

ISBN-10

0262540886

Weight

1.68 Pounds

Dimensions

8.25 x 1.00 x 10.75 In

List Price

$35.00

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

287 pages

Publisher

Mit Pr

Published On

1997-06-06


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