Body and Building: Essays on the Changing Relation of Body and Architecture

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Summary: Architect's Journal List of Books of the Year
Review: Architects' Journal
19/12/2002, Pages: 44,45

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Body and Building: Essays on the Changing Relation of Body and Architecture Edited by George Dodds.MIT Press, £37.95, ranked 6th of a selection of 30 titles that AJ reviewers have most enjoyed during the past 12 months

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Summary: Body beautiful
Review: from Architects' Journal 25/07/2002

Body and Building: Essays on the Changing Relation of Body and Architecture Edited by George Dodds and Robert Tavernor.MIT Press, 2002. 427pp. ?37.95

This weighty volume, based on a conference six years ago celebrating Joseph Rykwert's 70th birthday, is far more than a congratulatory festschrift. Between its front and back biographical wrappings are fascinating essays of lasting interest, to which a short review cannot do justice....As Rykwert has concluded elsewhere:'History can never teach us. But we may learn from it.' This book is an education.