FORMAL STRATEGY CASE STUDY – BODY

FS-BODY STUDY – MARCO GEORGES.PDF If we start to analyze Mayer’s work we will find one common quality that appears in the body of every building that he creates. Perhaps it is nature that fascinates Mayer. Each one of his buildings has a story that could be linked to nature, and Mensa Karlsruhe is another [...]

THE PREMISE OF RECOMBINANT ARCHITECTURE, ONE – BENJAMIN H.BRATTON

Recombinant architecture” begins with the prepositional projection of biotechnologies” that is linked to architectural imagination, which includes genetic and transgenic engineering “such a proposition de-links conventional allegorical relationships between body and structure” this applies to many forms such as cyborgs, generative tissue textiles and genetically engineered building materials. Any building must be designed in a [...]

25 JANUARY 1978 – MICHEL FOUCAULT

Due to normalization security and discipline are quite different from each other. The technique itself develops from the system of law. The population is capable of greatly affecting security and territory for example. The discipline can affect the normation but not normalization.  Foucault talks about smallpox as an epidemic and how we tend to report [...]

WHEN MAN IS ON THE MENU

Donna Haraway starts her article talking about creation of the OncoMouse that changed the cancer research forever and how this tool is partnership between metaphor and technology. That mouse was taken out of its natural habitat and then became the image of the weapon in the fight against cancer and at the same time is [...]

ARCHITECTURE FROM WITHOUT: BODY, LOGIC AND SEX

Diana Agrest starts her study by referring to the common properties that every culture has, which is that every society of any kind has imaginary zones (portions) that are excluded from the main body of the society. These portions are usually referred to as the “abnormal” and “odd”. “for something to be excluded, two parts [...]

THE BUILDING IN PAIN : THE BODY AND ARCHITECTURE IS POST-MODERN CULTURE

The author explores the 3 stages of building body development throughout the history. He starts by analyzing the Vitruvian theory and how it relates to buildings as is uses the human body as a model of perfection.  The author refers to the work of Francisco di Giorgio who used the Vitruvian theory as a model [...]

THE MEDICAL BODY IN MODERN ARCHITECTURE:

The author begins her article by stating that architecture has developed since the beginning as a response to medical challenges throughout history. Architecture’s main purpose is to provide the basic psychological and physical demands of occupants.  Robert Musil said, “ Modern man is born in hospital and dies in hospital – hence he should also [...]

VISIONS’ UNFOLDIGN ARCHITECTURE IN THE AGE OF ELECTRONIC MEDIA – PETER EISEMAN

The author to the articles questions the ideas of conventional architecture and provides a different opportunity to see architecture in a different perceptive. The fact that every aspect of civilization since the second world war has witnessed a change from the mechanical paradigm to the electrical paradigm has caused Peter Eiseman to question that change. [...]

THE SYNTHESIS OF ONE’S OWN BODY

“To be a body is to be tied to a certain world. As we have seen: our body is not primarily in space: it is of it” Ponty starts her article by explaining the concept of space and object in space and presenting a new understanding of perception rational and empirical concepts of consciousness. The [...]

Sigmund Freud: The Ego and the Id, Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood