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abjection aesthetics
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architectural
architectural biomimetics
Architectural Flesh
Author_Marcos Cruz
Bataille
biological architecture
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Bourgeois's Case
Bourgeois’s Case
California USA
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Chareau's Maison De Verre
Chareau’s Maison De Verre
Clues
cook
corbusier
DACS
digital fabrication methods
embodied design
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FLC
Graz Austria
Hold
Inhabitable Flesh
Inhabitable Interfaces
Inhabitable Walls
interfaces
Latex Models
Le Corbusier
London UK
louise
Louise Bourgeois
Maison De Verre
material hybridity
neoplasm
peter
Peter Cook
semi-living architectural systems
Smooth
synthetic
Synthetic Neoplasm
USA
Vice Versa
walls
Yayoi Kusama
Product details
- ISBN 9781409469346
- Weight: 839g
- Dimensions: 220 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 31 Dec 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Today’s architecture has failed the body with its long heritage of purity of form and aesthetic of cleanliness. A resurgence of interest in flesh, especially in art, has led to a politics of abjection, completely changing traditional aesthetics, and is now giving light to an alternative discussion about the body in architecture. This book is dedicated to a future vision of the body in architecture, questioning the contemporary relationship between our Human Flesh and the changing Architectural Flesh. Through the analysis and design of a variety of buildings and projects, Flesh is proposed as a concept that extends the meaning of skin, one of architecture’s most fundamental metaphors. It seeks to challenge a common misunderstanding of skin as a flat and thin surface. In a time when a pervasive discourse about the impact of digital technologies risks turning the architectural skin ever more disembodied, this book argues for a thick embodied flesh by exploring architectural interfaces that are truly inhabitable. Different concepts of Flesh are investigated, not only concerning the architectural and aesthetic, but also the biological aspects. The latter is materialised in form of Synthetic Neoplasms, which are proposed as new semi-living entities, rather than more commonly derived from scaled-up analogies between biological systems and larger scale architectural constructs. These ’neoplasmatic’ creations are identified as partly designed object and partly living material, in which the line between the natural and the artificial is progressively blurred. Hybrid technologies and interdisciplinary work methodologies are thus required, and lead to a revision of our current architectural practice.
Marcos Cruz is Director of the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, UK.
