TY - GEN AU - Cruz, Marcos TI - Inhabitable flesh of architecture SN - 9781409469346 U1 - 720.1 PY - 2013/// CY - England PB - Ashgate publishing ltd. N1 - 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 ER -