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oapen-20.500.12657-577992022-08-06T03:01:14Z Experiments with Body Agent Architecture Ayuso, Alessandro architecture figurines design Renaissance Baroque Modernism architectural theory built environment architect bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AM Architecture::AMA Theory of architecture bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AC History of art / art & design styles::ACN History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600::ACND Renaissance art bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AC History of art / art & design styles::ACQ History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800::ACQB Art & design styles: Baroque bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AC History of art / art & design styles::ACX History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -::ACXD Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960::ACXD2 Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AM Architecture::AMC Architectural structure & design Experiments with Body Agent Architecture puts forward the notion of body agents: non-ideal, animate and highly specific figures integrated with design to enact particular notions of embodied subjectivity in architecture. Body agents present opportunities for architects to increase imaginative and empathic qualities in their designs, particularly amidst a posthuman condition. Beginning with narrative writing from the viewpoint of a body agent, an estranged ‘quattrocento spiritello’ who finds himself uncomfortably inhabiting a digital milieu (or, as the spiritello calls it, ‘Il Regno Digitale’), the book combines speculative historical fiction and original design experiments. It focuses on the process of creating the multi-media design experiments, moving from the design of the body itself as an original prosthetic to architectural proposals emanating from the body. A fragmented history of the figure in architecture is charted and woven into the designs, with chapters examining Michelangelo’s enigmatic figures in his drawings for the New Sacristy in the early sixteenth century, Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s physically ephemeral ‘putti’ adorning chapels and churches in the seventeenth century, and Austrian artist-architect Walter Pichler’s personal and prescient figures of the twentieth century. 2022-08-05T15:37:59Z 2022-08-05T15:37:59Z 2022 book ONIX_20220805_9781800081703_9 9781800081703 9781800081710 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/57799 eng Design Research in Architecture application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781800081703.pdf UCL Press UCL Press 10.14324/111.9781800081703 10.14324/111.9781800081703 df73bf94-b818-494c-a8dd-6775b0573bc2 9781800081703 9781800081710 UCL Press London open access
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Experiments with Body Agent Architecture puts forward the notion of body agents: non-ideal, animate and highly specific figures integrated with design to enact particular notions of embodied subjectivity in architecture. Body agents present opportunities for architects to increase imaginative and empathic qualities in their designs, particularly amidst a posthuman condition. Beginning with narrative writing from the viewpoint of a body agent, an estranged ‘quattrocento spiritello’ who finds himself uncomfortably inhabiting a digital milieu (or, as the spiritello calls it, ‘Il Regno Digitale’), the book combines speculative historical fiction and original design experiments. It focuses on the process of creating the multi-media design experiments, moving from the design of the body itself as an original prosthetic to architectural proposals emanating from the body. A fragmented history of the figure in architecture is charted and woven into the designs, with chapters examining Michelangelo’s enigmatic figures in his drawings for the New Sacristy in the early sixteenth century, Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s physically ephemeral ‘putti’ adorning chapels and churches in the seventeenth century, and Austrian artist-architect Walter Pichler’s personal and prescient figures of the twentieth century.
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