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Author:   Ritu Bhatt (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.630kg
ISBN:  

9780415534741

ISBN 10:   0415534747
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   14 February 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1: Role of Aesthetic Response in Everyday Life 1. Everyday Aesthetics of Embodiment Richard Shusterman 2. Dewey’s Big Idea for Aesthetics Mark Johnson 3. Attention and Imaginative Engagement in Marcel Breuer’s Atlanta Public Library Sonit Bafna 4. From Buildings to Architecture: A Construal of Nelson Goodman’s Aesthetics Remei Capdevila Werning 5. The Extended Self: Tacit Knowing and Place Identity Chris Abel Part 2: Modes of Aesthetic Response: Tacit Perception and Somatic Consciousness 6. Body Conscious Design Galen Cranz 7. The Moral Dimension of Japanese Aesthetics Yuriko Saito 8. Traditional Knowledge for Contemporary Users: An Analysis of Everday Practices of Self-Help in Architecture Ritu Bhatt 9. Environmental Embodiment, Merleau-Ponty, and Bill Hillier’s Theory of Space Syntax: Toward a Phenomenology of People-in-Place David Seamon 10. Mental and Existential Ecology Juhani Pallasmaa

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... Ritu Bhatt has convened some of the most well-known names in the philosophy of embodied aesthetics and in the role of the body in design to bring together the under-theorized disciplines of architecture and aesthetics, and to explore how dissolving certain disciplinary boundaries could help reconsideration of the body in design. - Tom Spector, Architecture Philosophy

"""… Ritu Bhatt has convened some of the most well-known names in the philosophy of embodied aesthetics and in the role of the body in design to bring together the under-theorized disciplines of architecture and aesthetics, and to explore how dissolving certain disciplinary boundaries could help reconsideration of the body in design."" – Tom Spector, Architecture Philosophy"

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Ritu Bhatt received her PhD in history, theory, and criticism of architecture at MIT and has taught at departments of architecture, rhetoric, and comparative literature at UC Berkeley and the University of Minnesota, USA.

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