1st Edition
Architectural Colossi and the Human Body Buildings and Metaphors
By Charalampos Politakis
Copyright 2018
184 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
184 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
184 Pages
20 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction
1. Towards a First Syllogism
2. Towards a Second Syllogism
3. Fashionable Illusions
4. The Object as Subject: These are not Binoculars
5. Skeletal Apotheosis of the Human Body
6. Complexities and Developments
Biography
Charalampos Politakis graduated from the University of Ioannina, Greece (BA) and the University of Salford, UK (MA). He researched his PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, completing in 2014. He has taught at the Manchester School of Architecture and the University of Central Lancashire, UK. Charalampos is a multidisciplinary artist that has participated in several international exhibitions.
