The Inhabitable

Flesh of Architecture
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

I.5.1 The Classical Body 10

1.5-2 The Grotesque Body 10

1.5.3 The Bourgeois Body 11

1.5.4 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

51.1 Bourgeois at Eccentric Abstraction 41

51.2 Bourdieu's 'Taste of Reflection' 43

51.3 The Rise of 'Good Taste' and 'Good Design' 44

51.4 Flesh and Disgust 45

51.5 Flesh out of Place 46

51.6 The Double Meaning of Disgust 47

51.7 Disgust as a Social Construct 48

51.8 Disgusting Materiality: Miller's Inorganic versus Organic; Plant versus Animal; Animal versus

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51.9 Flesh is Fat, Skin is Slim 50

51.10 Miller's 'Inside of Me' versus 'Outside of Me' 50

51.11 Our Human-Animal Relationship with Flesh 52

51.12 Miller's 'Me' versus 'You' and 'Us' versus Them' 53

51.13 Disgusting Skin 53

51.14 Feeling Disgust through Touch 55

51.15 The Attraction of Disgust 56

Si. 16 Bourgeois's Environments 57

51.16.1 The Destruction of the Father 58

51.16.2 The Confrontation 60

Sl.17 Conclusion 63

Section II: Inhabitable Interfaces 67

52.1 Introduction 67

52.2 Interfaces: an Extended Meaning of Walls 67

52.3 Walls as Dividers; Walls as Unifiers 71

52.4 Inhabitable Walls are not Service Cores 74

52.5 Body Analogies 75

52.6 Figural Ornaments as Wall Inhabitants 78

52.7 Bourgeois Detachment: Seeking Privacy, Cleanliness and Social Order 80

52.8 Domenech i Montaner's Inhabitable Facades 83

52.9 Loos's Inhabitable Mask 86

52.10 From 'Wall-art' to Interior Cleanliness 88

52.11 Neutra's Affective Environments 90

52.12 Wright, Schindler and Lautner's Built-ins 93

52.13 Moore's 'Climbing-the-Castle-Phenomenon' 96

52.14 Intimate Walls: The Attraction of Mysterious walls 97

52.15 Technologized Walls and Chareau's Appliance Walls 99

52.16 Dallegret's Inhabitable Appliances 102

52.17 The Smithsons' Inhabitable Cubicles 102

52.18 1960s Wallism; Webb's Deployable Suits; Inhabitable Capsules 106

52.19 Wearable Walls 109

52.20 Marcosnandmarjan's Inhabitable Lofts 110

52.21 Comparative Analysis 113

52.21.1 Le Corbusier's Spiritual Walls (with Confessionals) 120

52.21.2 Utzon's Inhabitable Exhibition Cones 126

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S2.21.3 Rogers and Piano's Inhabitable Media Facade 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

S2.21.7.3 Marcosandmarjan's Inhabitable Exhibition Vessels 138

S2.21.7.4 Marcosandmarjan's Inhabitable Voids H3

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.I 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 181

S3.14.1 Kunsthaus Graz 181

Design Experiment (Final Stage): Hyperdermis Cyborgian Interfaces 191

Conclusion 199

Bibliographic References 203

Index 223

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