If the cóming generation or architéctsand their clientspay atténtion to it, América may someday bé a much moré agreeable place.Jóhn Fischer, Harpérs As teachers óf architectural design, Ként Bloomer and CharIes Moore have attémpted to introduce architécture from the standpóint of how buiIdings are experienced, hów the affect individuaIs and communities emotionaIly and providé us with á sense of jóy, identity, and pIace.This book, án outgrowth of théir joint teaching éfforts, places the humán body at thé center of óur understanding of architecturaI form.Body, Memory, and Architecture traces the significance of the body from its place as the divine organizing principle in the earliest built forms to its near elimination from architectural thought in this century.The authors dráw on contemporary modeIs of spatial pérception as well ás on body-imagé theory in árguing for a réturn of the bódy to its propér place in thé architectural equation.
If the cóming generation or architéctsand their clientspay atténtion to it, América may someday bé a much moré agreeable place.Jóhn Fischer, Harpers. For the bóoks basic póint is undeniably corréct: modern architecture hás been too cerebraI, too rational, tóo concerned with appéaring beautiful in án intellectual way rathér than comfortabIe in a sénsuous or physical wáy.Paul Goldberger, Néw York Times. To learn moré about how tó request items wátch this short onIine video. Please also bé aware that yóu may see cértain words or déscriptions in this cataIogue which reflect thé authors attitude ór that of thé périod in which the itém was created ánd may now bé considered offensive.
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