The Body of Surroundings
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¶ Architecture body
Human beings are born into architecture and are conditioned by it. When the architecturally motivated body replaces the mind, “what’s on your mind?” can be more posed as “what’s up with your architectural body?”. We can say that ideal normatized body in architecture dismmissed many aspects of the human body. Conceived this way, architecture becomes a machine engaging normative processes, both in its users’ imagination and in an anatomical action. Following are some examples on how the architecture body was ideallised. Other examples show how to architecture body was interconnected with the surrounding environment. — Normalized body
3.1 The Vitruvian man. Leonardo Da Vinci, 1487. https://leonardodavinci. stanford.edu/submissions/ clabaugh/history/ leonardo.html
• The modernist project to establish a standard of the human body was not born in the 20th century. Renaissance was built around this notion of idealized proportions both for the body and architecture.
• In 1936, Ernst Neufert, created an Architects’ Data book which establishes a rationalization of the human male body and its direct built environment. This book is still considered as the “bible” in some architectural schools. 22
3.2 Man: the universal standard,by Arnest Neufert 1936.
