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Experiments with Body Agent Architecture

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dc.creator Ayuso, Alessandro
dc.date 2022-08-06T04:04:14Z
dc.date 2022-08-06T04:04:14Z
dc.date 2022-08-05T15:37:59Z
dc.date 2022
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-17T21:27:18Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-17T21:27:18Z
dc.identifier ONIX_20220805_9781800081703_9
dc.identifier https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57799
dc.identifier https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/90782
dc.identifier https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/57799/1/9781800081703.pdf
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/247265
dc.description Experiments with Body Agent Architecture puts forward the notion of body agents: non-ideal, animate and highly specific figures integrated with design to enact particular notions of embodied subjectivity in architecture. Body agents present opportunities for architects to increase imaginative and empathic qualities in their designs, particularly amidst a posthuman condition. Beginning with narrative writing from the viewpoint of a body agent, an estranged ‘quattrocento spiritello’ who finds himself uncomfortably inhabiting a digital milieu (or, as the spiritello calls it, ‘Il Regno Digitale’), the book combines speculative historical fiction and original design experiments. It focuses on the process of creating the multi-media design experiments, moving from the design of the body itself as an original prosthetic to architectural proposals emanating from the body. A fragmented history of the figure in architecture is charted and woven into the designs, with chapters examining Michelangelo’s enigmatic figures in his drawings for the New Sacristy in the early sixteenth century, Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s physically ephemeral ‘putti’ adorning chapels and churches in the seventeenth century, and Austrian artist-architect Walter Pichler’s personal and prescient figures of the twentieth century.
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dc.language eng
dc.publisher UCL Press
dc.publisher UCL Press
dc.relation Design Research in Architecture
dc.rights open access
dc.subject architecture
dc.subject figurines
dc.subject design
dc.subject Renaissance
dc.subject Baroque
dc.subject Modernism
dc.subject architectural theory
dc.subject built environment
dc.subject architect
dc.subject bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AM Architecture::AMA Theory of architecture
dc.subject bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AC History of art / art & design styles::ACN History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600::ACND Renaissance art
dc.subject bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AC History of art / art & design styles::ACQ History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800::ACQB Art & design styles: Baroque
dc.subject bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AC History of art / art & design styles::ACX History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -::ACXD Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960::ACXD2 Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus
dc.subject bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AM Architecture::AMC Architectural structure & design
dc.title Experiments with Body Agent Architecture
dc.resourceType book
dc.alternateIdentifier 9781800081703
dc.alternateIdentifier 9781800081710
dc.alternateIdentifier 10.14324/111.9781800081703
dc.licenseCondition open access
dc.licenseCondition Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.identifierdoi 10.14324/111.9781800081703
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dc.relationisbn 9781800081703
dc.relationisbn 9781800081710
dc.placepublication London
dc.imprint UCL Press


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