Paradox of Body, Building and Motion in Seventeenth-Century England
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changeable garden
domestic built environment
English architectural theorists
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geography
Heinrich Wolfflin
human experience
ideal harmony
mobile wall surface
mobility
modern architectural theory
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philosophy
poetry
political theory
seventeenth-century England
social divisions
social interactions
staccato rhythms
vistas
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- ISBN 9780719095801
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 2015
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book examines how seventeenth-century English architectural theorists and designers rethought the domestic built environment in terms of mobility, as motion became a dominant mode of articulating the world across discourses encompassing philosophy, political theory, poetry, and geography. From mid-century, the house and estate that had evoked staccato rhythms became triggers for mental and physical motion – evoking travel beyond England’s shores, displaying vistas, and showcasing changeable wall surfaces. Simultaneously, philosophers and other authors argued for the first time that, paradoxically, the blur of motion immobilised an inherently restless viewer into social predictability and so stability. Alternately feared and praised early in the century for its unsettling unpredictability, motion became the most certain way of comprehending social interactions, language, time, and the buildings that filtered human experience. At the heart of this narrative is the malleable sensory viewer, tacitly assumed in early modern architectural theory and history yet whose inescapable responsiveness to surrounding stimuli guaranteed a dependable world from the seventeenth century.
Kimberley Skelton is an Independent Scholar
