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The Architecture of Bathing
Author | : Christie Pearson |
Publsiher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2020-10-06 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780262044219 |
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A celebration of communal bathing—swimming pools, saunas, beaches, ritual baths, sweat lodges, and more—viewed through the lens of architecture and landscape. We enter the public pool, the sauna, or the beach with a heightened awareness of our bodies and the bodies of others. The phenomenology of bathing opens all of our senses toward the physical world entwined with the social, while the history of bathing is one of shared space, in both natural and built environments. In The Architecture of Bathing, Christie Pearson offers a unique examination of communal bathing and its history from the perspective of architecture and landscape. Engagingly written and richly illustrated, with more than 260 illustrations, many in color, The Architecture of Bathing offers a celebration of spaces in which public and private, sacred and profane, ritual and habitual, pure and impure, nature and culture commingle. Pearson takes a wide-ranging view of her subject, drawing on architecture, art, and literary works. Each chapter is structured around an architectural typology and explores an accompanying theme—for example, tub, sensuality; river, flow; waterfall, rejuvenation; and banya, immersion. Offering examples, introducing relevant theory, and recounting personal experiences, Pearson effortlessly combines a practitioner's zest with astonishing erudition. As she examines these forms, we see that they are inextricable from landscapes, bodily practices, and cultural production. Looking more closely, we experience architecture itself as an immersive material and social space, embedded inthe interdependent environmental and cultural fabric of our world.
The Sack of Bath
Author | : Adam Fergusson |
Publsiher | : Salisbury : Compton Russell Limited |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : UOM:39015007222568 |
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Baths and Bathing in Classical Antiquity
Author | : Fikret K. Yegül |
Publsiher | : MIT Press (MA) |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : UOM:39076002340672 |
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This text reviews and analyzes the structure, function and design of baths, seeking to integrate their architecture with the wider social and cultural custom of bathing, and examining in particular the changes this custom underwent in Late Antiquity and in Byzantine and Islamic cultures.
A Companion to Roman Architecture
Author | : Roger B. Ulrich,Caroline K. Quenemoen |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 511 |
Release | : 2013-10-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781118325131 |
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A Companion to Roman Architecture presents a comprehensive review of the critical issues and approaches that have transformed scholarly understanding in recent decades in one easy-to-reference volume. Offers a cross-disciplinary approach to Roman architecture, spanning technology, history, art, politics, and archaeology Brings together contributions by leading scholars in architectural history An essential guide to recent scholarship, covering new archaeological discoveries, lesser known buildings, new technologies and space and construction Includes extensive, up-to-date bibliography and glossary of key Roman architectural terms
Thermal Delight in Architecture
Author | : Lisa Heschong |
Publsiher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1979-12-05 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 026258039X |
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Our thermal environment is as rich in cultural associations as our visual, acoustic, olfactory, and tactile environments. This book explores the potential for using thermal qualities as an expressive element in building design. Until quite recently, building technology and design has favored high-energy-consuming mechanical methods of neutralizing the thermal environment. It has not responded to the various ways that people use, remember, and care about the thermal environment and how they associate their thermal sense with their other senses. The hearth fire, the sauna, the Roman and Japanese baths, and the Islamic garden are discussed as archetypes of thermal delight about which rituals have developed—reinforcing bonds of affection and ceremony forged in the thermal experience. Not only is thermal symbolism now obsolete but the modern emphasis on central heating systems and air conditioning and hermetically sealed buildings has actually damaged our thermal coping and sensing mechanisms. This book for the solar age could help change all that and open up for us a new dimension of architectural experience. As the cost of energy continues to skyrocket, alternatives to the use of mechanical force must be developed to meet our thermal needs. A major alternative is the use of passive solar energy, and the book will provide those interested in solar design with a reservoir of ideas.
The Architecture of Red Vienna 1919 1934
Author | : Eve Blau |
Publsiher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 554 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780262024518 |
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Encyclopedic in its coverage, this seminal work focuses on the architecture of Prague from the turn of the century to the end of the Second World War: a rich matrix within which to place the figures who created the powerful, innovative spirits of modern Czech architecture. The book documents the architects, structures, and theoretical underpinnings that helped to shape Prague's cultural heritage and present-day artistic spirit.
Architecture Ceremonial and Power
Author | : Gülru Necipoğlu |
Publsiher | : MIT Press (MA) |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : UOM:39015021615631 |
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Necipoglu demonstrates the palace's role as a vast stage for the enactment of a ceremonial that emphasized the sultan's absolute power and his aloofness from the outside world. In the absence of the monumentality, axiality, and rational geometric planning principles now usually associated with imperial architecture, the author's deciphering of the palace's iconography is all the more revealing.