Architecture in Abjection Bodies, Spaces and Their Relations

Author/creator Kovar, Zuzana Author
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon : I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited Ashland : Baker & Taylor Publisher Services (BTPS) [Distributor]
Description288 p. 08.750 x 05.500 in.
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SeriesInternational Library of Architecture Ser.
Summary Annotation This text 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.'
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ISBN9781784537937
ISBN1784537934 (Trade Cloth) Forthcoming
Standard identifier# 9781784537937
Stock number9781784537937 00312832

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