Dodds, George and Robert Tavernor. Body and Building: Essays on the Changing Relation of Body and Architecture. Cambridge MA and London: MIT Press, 2002. Written for a symposium held at the University of Pennsylvania in March 1996 in honor of Jospeh Rykwert.
First edition; pp. 592; oversize; illustrated. Red cloth, metallic blue titles to spine and front.
"Since Greek antiquity the human body has been regarded as a microcosm of universal harmony. In this book an international group of architects, architectural historians, and theorists examines the relation of the human body and architecture."
Contents: "A promise as well as a memory": toward an intellectual biography of Joseph Rykwert / George Baird The architectonics of embodiment / Dalibor Vesely Greek temple and Greek brain / John Onians Doric figuration / Mark Wilson Jones Contemplating perfection through Piero's eyes / Robert Tavernor Reclining bodies: figural ornament in Renaissance architecture / Alina Payne Body, diagram, and geometry in the Renaissance fortress / Simon Pepper Dancing with Vitruvius: corporeal fantasies in northern classicism / Harry Francis Mallgrave On Inigo Jones and the Stuart legal body: "Justice and equity ... and proportions appertaining" / Vaughan Hart Sphere and cross: Vitruvian reflections on the Pantheon type / Karsten Harries Charles-Etienne Briseux: the musical body and the limits of instrumentality in architecture / Alberto Pérez-Gómez The foreigner / Richard Sennett Vitruvius Crucifixus: architecture, Mimesis, and the death instinct / Neil Leach Body and building inside the Bauhaus's darker side: on Oskar Schlemmer / Marcia F. Feuerstein Desiring landscapes/landscapes of desire: scopic and somatic in the Brion Sanctuary / George Dodds A tradition of architectural figures: a search for Vita Beata / Marco Frascari Sitting in the city, or The body in the world / David Leatherbarrow Upright or flexible? Exercising posture in modern architecture / William Braham and Paul Emmons Corporeal experience in the architecture of Tadao Ando / Kenneth Frampton Joseph Rykwert: an anthropologist of architectural history? / Vittorio Gregotti (translated by George Dodds and Robert Tavernor)