The relationship of architecture to the human body is a centuries-long and complex one, but not always symmetrical. This book opens a space for historians of th

Traces the significance of the human body in architecture from its early place as the divine organizing principle to its present near elimination

Research in and on architecture is as complex as the discipline itself with its different specialist fields, and therefore the results often remain unconnected.

Essays on the changing relationship of the human body and architecture.

A celebration of communal bathing—swimming pools, saunas, beaches, ritual baths, sweat lodges, and more—viewed through the lens of architecture and landscap