
This book, an outgrowth of their joint teaching efforts, places the human body at the center of our understanding of architectural form. Yudell New Haven and London Yale University Press. Please upgrade to a supported browser.Dismiss. The version of the browser you are using is no longer supported. In giving priority to these issues and in questioning the professional reliance on abstract two-dimensional drawings, they often find themselves in conflict with a general and undebated assumption that architecture is a highly specialized system with a set of prescribed technical goals, rather than a sensual social art historically derived from experiences and memories of the human body.īody, Memory, and Architecture Share. Body Memory And Architecture (with Kent Bloomer)Īs teachers of architectural design, Kent Bloomer and Charles Moore have attempted to introduce architecture from the standpoint of how buildings are experienced, how the affect individuals and communities emotionally and provide us with a sense of joy, identity, and place.
