Architecture and the Body, Science and Culture

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Foreword
Introduction
1 Architecture before the body? Articulation and proportion in Archaic and Classical Greece
2 Healing in motion: locotherapy and the architecture of the Pergamene Asklepieion in the second century CE
3 The crafted bodies of Suger: reconsidering the matter of St-Denis
4 Gothic skins: penitents at the cathedral
5 Hybrid bodies move to center stage on a brothel in medieval Languedoc
6 Visceral space: dissection and Michelangelo’s Medici Chapel
7 Soaking in architecture: Montaigne, thermal baths and sixteenth-century medical treatises
8 Academic bodies and anatomical architecture in early modern Bologna
9 The eye of modernity: form, proportion and rhythm in German architectural history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
10 Body and space, Gothic and Cubism: a Czech avant-garde between empathy, aesthetics and science
11 Rehabilitating the invalid body: architecture and citizenship in Jaap Bakema’s design for a Dutch postwar village for the disabled
12 Sacred fortresses: the church of Ste-Bernadette of Banlay and the mechanized body in postwar France
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index