To browse Academia. Flesh and Stone presents a historical examination of cities viewed through the lens of human bodily experiences, exploring how individuals interact with their urban environments across time. The author argues that modern architecture and urban design often lead to sensory deprivation, disconnecting individuals from their physical bodies in the space they inhabit, and emphasizes the need to address the dignity of the body and the diversity of human experiences in urban planning.
Architecture and the Body, Science and Culture, The relationship of architecture to the human body is a centuries-long and complex one, but not always symmetrical. This book opens a space for historians of the visual arts, archaeologists, architects, and digital humanities professionals to reflect upon embodiment, spatiality, science, and architecture in pre-modern and modern cultural contexts.
The answers are sophisticated, interdisciplinary explorations of theory, technology, symbolism, medicine, violence, psychology, deformity, and salvation, and they have unexpected and fascinating implications for architectural design and history.
The new research published in this volume reinvigorates the Western survey-style trajectory from Archaic Greece to post-war Europe with scientifically-framed, body-centered provocations.
The perception of the skin of our cities becomes a fundamental element for better understanding that layer that divides the exterior and inte- rior of the buildings in which and between which - at different levels - all the possibilities of daily life are manifested.
