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The Vitruvian Man, the Golden Section, and the Modular Man were once seen as idealized, iconic representations of the relationship of the human body to architecture. But the widespread practice of psychoanalysis, the development of genetic engineering, and the raised consciousness of the female body have altered not only the traditional idea of body but also how we inhabit the body, and how we make and inhabit space. How does the new understanding of the body relate to space? How does architecture adjust to this ...
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The Vitruvian Man, the Golden Section, and the Modular Man were once seen as idealized, iconic representations of the relationship of the human body to architecture. But the widespread practice of psychoanalysis, the development of genetic engineering, and the raised consciousness of the female body have altered not only the traditional idea of body but also how we inhabit the body, and how we make and inhabit space. How does the new understanding of the body relate to space? How does architecture adjust to this new idea of body? When does the body become the body politic? In Anybody, these and other questions are argued by thirty essayists, including architects Peter Eisenman, Arata Isozaki, Ben van Berkel, Enrique Norten, and Alejandro Zaero-Polo, and critics Fredric Jameson, Sylviane Agacinski, Elizabeth Grosz, Beatriz Colomina, and Brian Massumi.

Anybody is the sixth book in the ongoing series that began in 1991 with Anyone and was followed by Anywhere, Anyway, Anyplace, and Anywise. Each volume is based on a conference in which architects, philosophers, historians, theoreticians, artists, and intellectuals come together to present papers and discuss a particular theme from a multicultural and multidisciplinary perspective. The conference upon which Anybody is based took place at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in June 1996. Anybody will be followed by Anyhow, Anytime, Anymore, and Anything.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780262540889
  • Publisher: MIT Press
  • Publication date: 6/6/1997
  • Pages: 287
  • Product dimensions: 7.99 (w) x 10.49 (h) x 0.73 (d)

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Cynthia Davidson is the editor of ANY Magazine, the director of Anyone Corporation, and a member of the editorial board of the Writing Architecture series (MIT Press).
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Table of Contents

Introduction 8
The Idealized Body
Absent Bodies 16
For(m) Example 26
Incorporation 30
The Demiurgomorphic Contour 38
Discussion 1 46
The Body Politic
From Public Space to the Fortified Enclave 54
City and Fiesta: The Carnival of Salvador and the Nago City 64
The Body Politic 74
Architecture in a Reconfigured Body Politique 78
Imaginary North/South 86
Extremities: The Urban Body in Chaos 96
Discussion 2 100
The Virtual Body
Cyberspace, Virtuality, and the Real: Some Architectural Reflections 108
Casa de Retiro 118
Absent Totality 122
A Body of Work 132
Indigestion 138
Discussion 3 144
The Formless Body
Some Senses of "Ground" 154
From Body to Blob 162
The Political Economy of Belonging and the Logic of Relation 174
Immaterial Architecture 190
Toward a Disembodied Architectural Culture 196
Forget Heisenberg 202
Discussion 4 210
The Architectural Body
The Mirror and the Cloak 218
The Medical Body in Modern Architecture 228
Zones of Undecidability: The Interstitial Figure 240
The End of Becoming 248
Yes, but ... 254
Discussion 5 262
Appendix 270
Letters to Anybody 274
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