Contents
List of Images (According to their provenance) xi
Acknowledgements xvii
Photo Acknowledgements . xix
Introduction: Body and Flesh 1
1.1 Preliminary Design Experiments 1
1.2 Influences from Biology and the Medical Sciences 2
1.3 From Biology as a Model to Biology as a Hybrid Discipline 3
1.4 Flesh as an Extended Meaning of Skin 4
1.5 Different Body Conceptions 10
1.5-1 The Classical Body • ' 10
1.5.2 The Grotesque Body 10
1.5.3 The Bourgeois Body 11
1.54 The Modern Body ' 15
1.5.5 The Cyborgian Body 17
1.6 Sections ' 23
1.7 Research by Design 28
1.8 Three-dimensional Structure 29
Design Experiment I Hyperdermis/Walls for Communicating People 35
Section I: Disgusting Flesh 41
S1.1 Bourgeois at Eccentric Abstraction 41
S1.2 Bourdieu's Taste of Reflection' - 43
S1.3 The Rise of 'Good Taste' and 'Good Design 44
S1.4 Flesh and Disgust 45
S1.5 Flesh out of Place 46
S1.6 The Double Meaning of Disgust 47
Sl.7 Disgust as a Social Construct 48
Sl.8 Disgusting Materiality: Miller's Inorganic versus Organic; Plant versus Animal; Animal versus Human 48
S1.9 Flesh is Fat, Skin is Slim 50
S1.10 Miller's 'Inside of Me' versus 'Outside of Me 50
S1.11 Our Human-Animal Relationship with Flesh 52
S1.12 Miller's Me' versus 'You' and 'Us' versus Them 53
S1.13 Disgusting Skin 53
51.14 Feeling Disgust through Touch 55
S1.15 The Attraction of Disgust 56
S1.16 Bourgeois's Environments 57
51.16.1 The Destruction of the Father 58
S1.16.2 The Confrontation 60
S1.17 Conclusion 63
Section II: Inhabitable Interfaces 67
S2.1 Introduction 67
S2.2 Interfaces: an Extended Meaning of Walls 67
S2.3 Walls as Dividers; Walls as Unifiers 71
S2.4 Inhabitable Walls are not Service Cores 74
S2.5 Body Analogies 75
S2.6 Figural Ornaments as Wall Inhabitants 78
S2.7 Bourgeois Detachment: Seeking Privacy Cleanliness and Social Order 80
S2.8 Domenech i Montaner's Inhabitable Fagades ' 83
S2.9 Loos's Inhabitable Mask 86
S2.10 From 'Wall-art' to Interior Cleanliness . 88
S2.11 Neutra's Affective Environments 90
S2.12 Wright, Schindler and Lautner's Built-ins 93
S2.13 Moore's 'Climbing-the-Castle-Phenomenon 96
S2.14 Intimate Walls: The Attraction of Mysterious walls 97
82.15 Technologized Walls and Chareau's Appliance Walls 99
S2.16 Dallegret's Inhabitable Appliances 102
S2.17 The Smithsons' Inhabitable Cubicles . 102 S2.181960s Wallism; Webb's Deployable Suits; Inhabitable Capsules ' 106
S2.19 Wearable Walls 109
S2.20 Marcosnandmarjan's Inhabitable Lofts 110

S2.21 Comparative Analysis 113 S2.21.1 Le Corbusier's Spiritual Walls (with Confessionals) 120 S2.21.2 Utzon's Inhabitable Exhibition Cones 126
S2.21.3 Rogers and Piano's Inhabitable Media Fagade 127
S2.21.4 Ito's Inhabitable Columns 128
S2.21.5 Scott Cohen's Inhabitable Circulation Tubes 132
S2.21.6 Cook and Fournier's Inhabitable Skin 132
S2.21.7 Other Design Experiments 137
S2.21.7.1 Cruz's Inhabitable Hairy Wall 137
S2.21.7.2 Marcosandmarjan's Inhabitable Lab Cones 138 S2.2l.7-3 Marcosandmarjan's Inhabitable Exhibition Vessels 138
S2.21.7.4 Marcosandmarjan's Inhabitable Voids 143
S2.21.7.5 Marcosandmarjan's Inhabitable DJ Capsule ' 145
S2.21.7.6 Marcosandmarjan's Inhabitable Trusses 145
S2.22 Conclusion 148
Section III: Synthetic Neoplasms . 159
S3.1 Introduction 159
S3.2 Cronenberg's eXistenZ . 159
S3.3 Neoplasms are not Blobs , 160
S3.4 'Formless' Form 160
S3.5 Hybrid Creatures - Synthetic Neoplasms - 162
S3.6 Networked Neoplasms - Inhabitable Bodies ' 168
S3.7 The Neoplasms' Complexion: Flesh and Skin 170
S3.8 Genderless Skin 172
S3.9 Colourless Skin 172
S3.10 Naked Skin 175
S3.11 Touching Skin 176
S3.12 Inlucent Skin , 177
S3.13 Ugly Neoplasms 178
S3.14 Conclusion: Neoplasmatic Architecture l8l
S3.14.1 Kunsthaus Graz l8l
Design Experiment (Final Stage): Hyperdermis Cyborgian Interfaces 191
Conclusion 199 Bibliographic References 203
Index 223