Journals - search words: body & architecture

Tue May 4 0:01:27 EDT 2010

Search Words:      body ,   architecture


There were about 200 search results in the journals under these words.

Further search words to try:   Thresholds
Record 1 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Schwellenatalas: Von Abfallzerkleinerer bis Zeitmaschine.
SO: Source
   Arch plus, 2009 Mar., n.191-192, entire issue (134p.)
AB: Abstract
   Theme issue devoted to the question of of what changes the design and architectural significance of thresholds and how they are subject to    space and how to change perceptions of that space. The contributions    are arranged alphabetically. A glossary explains episodes of   technology and cultual history of 45 threshold elements like windows,  blinds, body scanners, garbage chutes, and plate glass.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Thresholds.; Space (Architecture) -- Theory.


Record 2 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Architecture from the inside out: from the body, the senses, the site
   and the community, 2nd edition, by Karen A. Franck and R. Bianca
   Lepori [book review].
AU: Author:    Popov, Lubomir.
SO: Source
   Architectural science review, 2009 Dec., v.51, n.4, p.413



Record 3

 DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   The body tectonic: anthropomorphism
AU: Author
   Hanekom, Leigh.
SO: Source
   Architecture South Africa: journal of the South African Institute of
   Architects, 2008 Sept.-Oct., p.70-73
AB: Abstract
   Reference to the human body in building is as old as architecture.
   Today, the advent of digital technology has opened new possibilities.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Architecture -- Human factors.; Anthropomorphism.; Digitization.






Record 4 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Uzorci materijalizacije = The samples of materizaliation [sic]
AU: Author
   Ednie-Brown, Pia.
SO: Source
   Oris, 2008, v.10, n.51, p.136-147
AB: Abstract
   Biothing, the body of work of American architect Alisa Andrasek.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Architects -- United States -- Andrasek, Alisa.; Computers and
   architecture.; Computer-aided design.; Andrasek, Alisa.



Record 5 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Sherry Huang: Dance the Walk, an exploration in body movement and
   architecture.
AU: Author
   Huang, Sherry.
SO: Source
   ARQ: la revue d'architecture, 2007 Nov., n.141, p.30-31
AB: Abstract
   Architectural student, Sherry Huang, works with the concept of
   choreography in architecture to design a meandering pedestrian
   pathway. Advisor: Alberto Perez-Gomez.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Pérez Gómez, Alberto, 1949-; Dance -- Influence.; Student projects
   -- Canada -- Montreal (Quebec) -- McGill University.



Record 6 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Hertzian space: material response to spatial presence
AU: Author
   Taylor, Mark.
SO: Source
   Architectural design, 2007 Sept-Oct., v.77, n.5, p.149-151
AB: Abstract
   Report on a student project at Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand, that aimed to generate space based on the dynamics of a full body massage.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Student projects -- New Zealand -- Wellington -- Victoria University
   of Wellington.; Space (Architecture) -- Student projects -- New
   Zealand -- Full Body Massage Suite.




Record 7 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Coming to our senses: architecture and the non-visual [book review]
AU: Author
   Benedikt, Michael.
SO: Source
   Harvard design magazine, 2007 Spring-Summer, n.26, p.83-91
AB: Abstract
   A review of five titles that "aim to bring architects closer to their senses, quite literally. Published from 2002 to 2007.
SA: Subject/Artist:     Architecture -- Human factors.; Senses.; Architecture -- Theory.;
   Urban design -- Theory.; Design -- Theory.; Space perception.;
   Architectural acoustics.; Space (Architecture) -- Psycological aspects.


Record 8 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Skin/weave/pattern
AU: Author
   Coates, Nigel, [1949-]
SO: Source
   Architectural design, 2006 Nov.-Dec., v.76, n.6, p.44-49
AB: Abstract
   The author "describes his ow experiments with textiles at Branson Coates Architecture and the Royal College of Art (RCA), in which they alternately become skin, weave and pattern operating at every scale
   from the individual body to the urban plan."
SA: Subject/Artist
   Textile fabrics.; Buildings -- Textile.; Folds.; Architectural design -- Theory.; Buildings -- Surfaces.; Building materials.; Facades.; Regional planning -- England -- London -- Thames Gateway.;  Installations (Exhibitions) -- England -- London -- Greenwich --  Millennium Dome -- Body Zone.; Branson Coates Architecture.; Coates,    Nigel, 1949-; Alsop, William, 1947-; Fashion Architecture Taste
   (Group).; AOC Architecture.; Royal College of Art (Great Britain).



Record 9 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   BIAS: it's a matter of listening and observing
AU: Author
   Stilling, Oliver.
SO: Source
   Arkitektur DK, 2006 Aug., v.50, n.5, p.364-369
AB: Abstract
   "BIAS ARKITEKTER (established 2004) is a young architectural practice whose architecture concerns the body's dialogue with space, regardless  of whether it's conceptual art or dialgoue based building projects."
SA: Subject/Artist
   Architects -- Denmark -- BIAS ARKITEKTER.; BIAS ARKITEKTER.




Record 10 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Choreographies in projected space
AU: Author
   Walker, Joanna.
SO: Source
   Scroope: Cambridge architectural journal, 2006 June, n.18, p.168-175
AB: Abstract
   Video installations that examine the fusion of media and architecture    through the production of alternative forms of screen space, language  and immersive environments in the context of navigable body-space.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Space (Architecture).; Installation works.




Record 11 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Body conscious [Bodymetrics scanning pod, London]
AU: Author
   Thompson, Henrietta.
SO: Source
   Blueprint (London, England), 2006 Feb., n.239, p.[61]-65
AB: Abstract
   "A new pod has just landed in Selfridges, which will scan your exact    measurements and make bespoke garments to fit. [The author] reports on how its architecture informed an entire brand identity for   bodymetrics." Architects: DLM Architectural Designers.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Pods (Architecture) -- England -- London -- Selfridges --
   Bodymetrics.; Dressing rooms -- England -- London -- Selfridges --
   Bodymetrics.; Scanners -- England -- London -- Selfridges --
   Bodymetrics.; Department stores -- Interior design -- England --
   London -- Selfridges -- Bodymetrics.; Corporate image -- Bodymetrics.;
   DLM Architectural Designers.; Domeison, Oliver J.




Record 12 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Esistenz minimissimum [Didier Fiusz Faustino]
AU: Author
   Midal, Alessandra.
SO: Source
   Domus, 2005 Sept., n.884, p.40-49
AB: Abstract
   On the border between architecture and conceptual art, Faustino creates spatial visions that take man's body as their elementary unit of measure.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Architects -- France -- Faustino, Didier Fiuza.; Faustino, Didier
   Fiuza, 1968-



Record 13 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   "Architecture au corps: entre la prothèse et le parasite" = ["Body
   architecture: between prothesis and parasite"]
AU: Author
   Teyssot, Georges, [1946-]
SO: Source
   Cahiers de la recherche architecturale et urbaine, 2005 Sept., n.17,  p.163-176
SA: Subject/Artist
   Anatomy.; Philosophy.; Architecture and technology.; Robotics.; Space
   (Architecture) -- Theory.








Record 14 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Tiempo: cuerpo y memoria, salones y recorridos = Time: body and
   memory, rooms and passageways
AU: Author
   Browne Covarrubias, Tomás.
SO: Source
   ARQ, 2005 Mar., n.59, p.11-13
SA: Subject/Artist
   Time.; Architecture -- Human factors.; Hallways.; Interior design.

Record 15 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Architecture de prothèse pour un corps post-humain = Extensions of
   the post-human body
AU: Author
   Teyssot, Georges, [1946-]
SO: Source
   Architecture d'aujourd'hui, 2004 Mar.-Apr., n.351, p.46-55
AB: Abstract
   Idea of architectural protheses reaching beyond the human to protect
   and shelter at the same time "abolishing old dichotomies between
   interior and exterior, private and public, organ and function." (p.52)
    Many examples, both old and new, are shown, including:
   Haus-Rucker-Co. "Mind expander," "Ballon für Zwei," David Greene
   "Living Pod," Michael Webb "Le Cushicle," etc.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Anatomy.; Space (Architecture) -- Theory.

Record 16 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Architettura effimera = Ephimeral architecture
AU: Author
   Nouvel, Jean, [1945-]
SO: Source
   Lotus international, 2004, n.122, p.[20]-21.
AB: Abstract
   Jean Nouvel has designed the stage sets for the dance performance Body
   / Work / Leisure, directed by Frédéric Flamand.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Theaters -- Stage-setting and scenery -- Body / Work / Leisure.;
   Flamand, Frédéric.; Nouvel, Jean, 1945-

Record 17 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Centón de colecciones = Cluster of collections.
SO: Source
   AV monografías = AV monographs, 2003 Nov.-Dec., n.104, p.6-17
AB: Abstract
   Five very brief essays concerned with the relationship between the
   body and architecture.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Architecture -- Human factors.; Architecture -- Theory.

Record 18 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Architects' conceptions of the human body
AU: Author
   Imrie, Robert, [1958-]
SO: Source
   Environment and planning D, society & space, 2003 Feb., v.21, n.1,
   p.47-65
AB: Abstract
   The author contends "that architects rarely relate their design
   conceptions to the human body and its multiple forms of embodiment.
   Where the body is conceived of, it is usually in terms of a conception
   of the 'normal body', or a body characterised by geometrical
   proportions arranged around precise Cartesian dimensions."
SA: Subject/Artist
   Architecture -- Human factors.; Architecture -- Composition,
   proportion, etc.

Record 19 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Gone... yet strangely there: in the hills of Colorado a landscape
   architect is discovered [Bredo Morstoel]
AU: Author
   Gillette, Felix.
SO: Source
   Landscape architecture, 2003 Jan., v.93, n.1, p.24,26
AB: Abstract
   Landscape architect's frozen body, brought to United States by his
   grandson, a believer in cryogenics, is now a local tourist
   attraction.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Landscape architects -- Norway -- Morstoel, Bredo.; Morstoel, Bredo,
   d.1989.; Tourism -- United States -- Nederland (Colorado).

Record 20 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Body and building: essays on the changing relation of body and
   architecture [ed. by] George Dodds, Robert Tavernor [book review]
AU: Author
   Bekaert, Geert, [1928-]
SO: Source
   Archis, 2003, n.2, p.114-115
AB: Abstract
   Published: 2002. Published by: MIT Pr.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Architecture -- Human factors.; Anatomy.; Architecture -- Theory.

Record 21 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Vitruvius: writing the body architecture [by] Indra Kagis McEwen [book
   review]
AU: Author
   Gros, Pierre.
SO: Source
   Annali di architettura: rivista del centro internazionale di studi di
   architettura Andrea Palladio, 2003, n.15, p.264-265
AB: Abstract
   Publ. 2003.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Architectural literature -- Roman.

Record 22 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Measure, metre, irony: reuniting pure mathematics with architecture
AU: Author
   Tavernor, Robert.
SO: Source
   Arq: architectural research quarterly, 2002, v.6, n.1, p.67-[75]
AB: Abstract
   "The human body once provided the fundamental measurements by which to
   gauge human creations - but the metric system offers 'mere number
   without concrete being'." Features Le Corbusier's Modular.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Mathematics in architecture.; Architecture -- Composition, proportion,
   etc.; Measuring.; Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.

Record 23 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Incorporations: exploring the space between body, mechanism, and
   imagination
AU: Author
   Sung, Doris Kim.
SO: Source
   Journal of architectural education, 2001 May, v.54, n.4, p.260-263
AB: Abstract
   "Designed as a 'lock' to a private photographic journal, this project
   investigates the relationship of body to machine and, ultimately, body
   to imagination. The project speculates on a way of understanding this
   relationship in the phenomenon of 'incorporation'".
SA: Subject/Artist
   Cameras.; Locks and keys.; Cybernetics.; Student projects -- United
   States -- Denver (Colorado) -- University of Colorado at Denver --
   School of Architecture and Planning.

Record 24 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Disjecta membra: architecture and the loss of the body [by] Michael J.
   Ostwald, R. John Moore [book review]
AU: Author
   Drake, Scott.
SO: Source
   Architectural theory review: journal of the Department of
   Architecture, the University of Sydney, 1999 Nov., v.4, n.2,
   p.107-109
AB: Abstract
   Publ. for an exhibition of the same name, 1998. Interprets the work of
   Tschumi, Himmelblau and Diller & Scofidio.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Architecture -- Human factors.; Architecture -- Theory.; Diller +
   Scofidio.; Tschumi, Bernard, 1944-; Exhibitions -- Disjecta Membra:
   Architecture and the Loss of the Body.; Coop Himmelblau.

Record 25 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   The disorder of order, and after
AU: Author
   Outram, John, [1934-]
SO: Source
   Architectural design, 2000 Oct., v.70, n.5, p.[15]-23
AB: Abstract
   "Behind the 'meaningless arithmetical mantra' of the grid, argues John
   Outram, is the forbidden cave of riches that is history, sealed up by
   the tragedy of modernism with a powerful taboo. To open and explore
   it, he suggests, would be to discover the fleshed out, still-breathing
   body of architecture, of which the grid is only the cryptic treasure
   map." With illustrations from the author's own work.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Architecture -- Theory.; Modern Movement -- Criticism.; Grids (Layout
   features).; Outram, John, 1934-

Record 26 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Body talk
AU: Author
   Grant, Simon.
SO: Source
   Blueprint (London, England), 2000 Apr., n.171, p.32-34,36
AB: Abstract
   "...examines some collaborations between architects and dancers which
   seek to express the structure of movement and the dance of space."
SA: Subject/Artist
   Space (Architecture).; Architecture -- Human factors.; Dance.;
   Architecture in performing arts.

Record 27 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Re-activate the docile body: a critical (re)view of Diller and
   Scofidio's "Slow House"
AU: Author
   Bremner, Alex.
SO: Source
   Architectural theory review: journal of the Department of
   Architecture, the University of Sydney, 2000 Apr., v.5, n.1,
   p.104-122
AB: Abstract
   Reconsiders "some of the major themes evident in the work by offering
   three distinct yet related interpretations concerning the design's
   relationship to form, image, and the human.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Vacation houses -- United States -- North Haven (New York) -- Slow
   House.; Architectural design -- Theory.; Diller, Elizabeth.; Scofidio,
   Richard, 1935-; Architecture -- Human factors.

Record 28 of 28

DN: Database Name
   Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
TI: Title
   Architectural representations in the "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili"
   (Aldus Manutius, 1499)
AU: Author
   Stewering, Roswitha.
SO: Source
   Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 2000 Mar., v.59,
   n.1, p.[6]-25
AB: Abstract
   Analysis of architectural representations, particularly the Temple of
   Venus Physizoa.  Contradicts L. Lefaivre's thesis of a direct
   connection between the author or the artist of the "Hypnerotomachia"
   and Leon Battista Alberti, and situates the Master of Polifilo in the
   group of painter-architects, along with Francesco di Giorgio Martini,
   Leonardo, and Raphael.
SA: Subject/Artist
   Colonna, Francesco, d. 1527. Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.; Architecture
   in literature.; Architectural literature -- 15th century -- Italy --
   Venice.; Architecture -- Composition, proportion, etc.; Perspective.