[computer is (temporarily) fixed..]
reading the intro to Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture,
Kate Nesbitt editor, Princeton Architectural Press, c.1996...
and came across one theme of the book that sounds like it is
related to Lauf-S(teve) Timepiece of Humanity..
Theme 6: T H E B O D Y
"In classical architecture, the human body serves as part of a
myth of origin through its use as a figural and proportional
model for projection into plan organization, facade, and detail.
Vidler points out that the body's image can be "mathematically
inscribed" via proportions and scale, or "pictorally emulated."
^156 The body metonymically represents nature in general, and
nature's elegent way of organizing complex functions." p.63
...
"Since the demise of the classical tradition, Vidler observes a
steady retreat of the body from the building. The process, which
results in the "loss of the body as an authoritative foundation
for architecture," is marked by three increasingly abstract
scenarios of bodily project: the building is a body; the building
represents or "embodies" states of body or mind; the environment
has bodily or organic attributes.^157 ".. p.63
P o s t r u c t u r a l i s t N o t i o n s O f
T h e B o d y A s S i t e
"Thus, the navel, as the center of the (male or female) body,
"becomes a metonymic object or a ~shifter in relation to gender."
(Diana) Agrest borrows the idea of the shifter, a "signifier which
opens to other systems,"^162 from linguist Roman Jakobson. The
recuperation of the female body as central to architecture requires
opening up the system, for instance, by allowing the shifter to
transform the body into geometry, and nature (associated with the
feminine) into architecture.".. p.65
bc
reading the intro to Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture,
Kate Nesbitt editor, Princeton Architectural Press, c.1996...
and came across one theme of the book that sounds like it is
related to Lauf-S(teve) Timepiece of Humanity..
Theme 6: T H E B O D Y
"In classical architecture, the human body serves as part of a
myth of origin through its use as a figural and proportional
model for projection into plan organization, facade, and detail.
Vidler points out that the body's image can be "mathematically
inscribed" via proportions and scale, or "pictorally emulated."
^156 The body metonymically represents nature in general, and
nature's elegent way of organizing complex functions." p.63
...
"Since the demise of the classical tradition, Vidler observes a
steady retreat of the body from the building. The process, which
results in the "loss of the body as an authoritative foundation
for architecture," is marked by three increasingly abstract
scenarios of bodily project: the building is a body; the building
represents or "embodies" states of body or mind; the environment
has bodily or organic attributes.^157 ".. p.63
P o s t r u c t u r a l i s t N o t i o n s O f
T h e B o d y A s S i t e
"Thus, the navel, as the center of the (male or female) body,
"becomes a metonymic object or a ~shifter in relation to gender."
(Diana) Agrest borrows the idea of the shifter, a "signifier which
opens to other systems,"^162 from linguist Roman Jakobson. The
recuperation of the female body as central to architecture requires
opening up the system, for instance, by allowing the shifter to
transform the body into geometry, and nature (associated with the
feminine) into architecture.".. p.65
bc