The human body has been used as both a model and metaphor in architecture since antiquity. This book explores how it has been an inspiration for the exterior form of architectural colossi through the years. It considers the body as a source of architectural and artistic representation and in doing so explores the results of such practices in colossal sculptures and architectural praxis within a philosophical discourse of space, time and media. Architectural Colossi and the Human Body discusses the role of Platonic and Cartesian philosophy and how philosophers such as Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, and theoreticians such as Frascari and Pallasmaa, have seen, described and analysed the human body and the role of architecture and perception. Drawing upon three key case studies and by employing theoretical ideas of Venturi and others, this book will provide an understanding of the role of anthromorphism and the relation and use of the human body with reference to selected architects and artists. Book jacket

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Politakis, Charalampos

Ashgate Publishing Limited

Taylor & Francis Group

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Gower Publishing Ltd

Taylor and Francis

Routledge Research in Architecture, 1st ed, Milton, 2017

Routledge research in architecture, New York, 2018

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

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Architectural Colossi and the Human Body- Front Cover 1
Architectural Colossi and the Human Body 2
Title Page 4
Copyright Page 5
Dedication 6
Contents 8
List of figures 10
Introduction 12
Chapter 1: Towards a first syllogism 22
Human bodies everywhere in the human world 23
Anthropomorphism in architecture: in a forest of structured human bodies 34
Chapter 2: Towards a second syllogism 56
Learning from the human body 56
Everything can become architecture 69
Chapter 3: Fashionable illusions 78
Approaching the proposed colossal monuments and buildings 78
The human body as an object 85
Chapter 4: The object as subject: these are not binoculars 110
The collaboration: the architect and the sculptor 110
Building identities 113
Chapter 5: Skeletal apotheosis of the human body 140
The arts and sciences complex 140
‘Penetrating’ the human body: an artificial praxis 146
Chapter 6: Complexities and developments 172
Index 180

This book explores how the human body was an inspiration for the exterior form of architectural colossi through the years.It considers the body as a source of architectural and artistic representation and explores the results of such practices in colossal sculptures and architectural praxis within a philosophical discourse of space, time and media.

2025-10-27