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Architecture in Abjection: Bodies, Spaces and their Relations

Architecture in Abjection: Bodies, Spaces and their Relations

Kovar, Zuzana

Hardcover

Series: International Library of Architecture

PhilosophyArt Criticism & TheoryGeneral Architecture

ISBN10: 1784537934
ISBN13: 9781784537937
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Dec 30 2017
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

This book marks a turning point in architectural theory by using philosophy to examine the field anew.Breaking from the traditional dualism within architecture - which presents the body as subject and space as object - it examines how such rigid boundaries can be softened. Zuzana Kovar thus engages with complementary and complex ideas from architecture, philosophy, feminist theory and other subjects, demonstrating how both bodies and bodily functions relate deeply to architecture. Extending philosopher Julia Kristeva's notion of abjection - the confrontation of one's own corporeality as something is excreted - Kovar finds parallels in the concept of the 'scaffold.' Much like living bodies and their products can impact on the buildings that house them - old skin cells create dust, menstrual blood stains, our breath heats and cools surfaces - scaffolding is similarly ephemeral and yet not entirely separable from the architecture it supports.

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