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Architecture in Abjection: Bodies, Spaces and Their Relations
Zuzana Kovar
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Description for Architecture in Abjection: Bodies, Spaces and Their Relations
Hardcover. Num Pages: 288 pages, 23 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: AM; AMA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
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.' ... Read more
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.' ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784537937
SKU
V9781784537937
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About Zuzana Kovar
Zuzana Kovar is a lecturer in architecture at Griffith University, Australia, where she teaches design and contemporary architectural theory. She is also co-director of the practice ZUZANA&NICHOLAS architects, who are engaged in a range of commercial project work, exhibition work and research.
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