2003 volume 21(1) pages 47 – 65
doi:10.1068/d271t

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Imrie R, 2003, "Architects' conceptions of the human body" Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 21(1) 47 – 65
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Architects' conceptions of the human body

Rob Imrie

Received 23 August 2001; in revised form 15 January 2002

Abstract. In this paper I develop the contention that architects rarely relate their design conceptions to the human body and its multiple forms of embodiment. Where the body is conceived of, it is usually in terms of a conception of the 'normal body', or a body characterised by geometrical proportions arranged around precise Cartesian dimensions. I describe and evaluate the content and implications of architects' conceptions of the body and embodiment, and consider the possibilities for, and problems in, challenging the dominance of bodily reductive conceptions in architecture.

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