Book of Donmon Teith

A collection of essays, exhibitions, and projects by noted artists, architects, and theoreticians that addresses the continually shifting values of the body as

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

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

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

Modern hygienic urbanism originated in the airy boulevards, public parks, and sewer system that transformed the Parisian cityscape in the mid-nineteenth century