The Architecture of Bathing

The Architecture of Bathing
Christie Pearson
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Hardback
h254 x 203mm - 304pg
30 Sep 2020 US
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9780262044219
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A celebration of communal bathing--swimming pools, saunas, beaches, ritual baths, sweat lodges, and more--viewed through the lens of architecture and landscape. We enter the public pool, the sauna, or the beach with a heightened awareness of our bodies and the bodies of others. The phenomenology of bathing opens all of our senses toward the physical world entwined with the social, while the history of bathing is one of shared space, in both natural and built environments. In The Architecture of Bathing, Christie Pearson offers a unique examination of communal bathing and its history from the perspective of architecture and landscape. Engagingly written and richly illustrated, with more than 260 illustrations, many in color, The Architecture of Bathing offers a celebration of spaces in which public and private, sacred and profane, ritual and habitual, pure and impure, nature and culture commingle.
Practically everywhere that bodies of water are accessible for public soaking, the architect and writer Christie Pearson has tried them out while taking glorious notes. Her book, The Architecture of Bathing: Body, Landscape, Art, careens around in time and place and ponders ' the bath' s utopian and dystopian aspects. ' --New York Times Book ReviewThe Architecture of Bathing, by the architect and University of Waterloo professor Christie Pearson, surveys famous, beautiful, and idiosyncratic balneal buildings, along with such objects as tubs and pools that are the props for ablution. Pearson' s bathing summary is comprehensive, both historically and geographically. --Literary Review of Canada
Christie Pearson is an award-winning architect, writer, and urban interventionist. An Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture, she is coeditor of the architectural journal Scapegoat.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780262044219
Published: 30 Sep 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: MIT Press
Publisher: MIT Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 254mm
Width: 203mm
Pages: 304

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