Architecture / History / Romanticism

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Echo’s Chambers

Echo’s Chambers

Architecture and the Idea of Acoustic Space

Explores How European Architecture since the Enlightenment Has Laid the Groundwork for Contemporary Ideas about Sound and Space

Ideals of the Body

Ideals of the Body

Architecture, Urbanism, and Hygiene in Postrevolutionary Paris

Modern hygienic urbanism originated in the airy boulevards, public parks, and sewer system that transformed the Parisian cityscape in the mid-nineteenth century. Sun-Young Park reveals how anxieties about health and social order, which manifested in emerging ideals of the body, created a uniquely spatial and urban experience of modernity in the postrevolutionary capital, one profoundly impacted by hygiene, mobility, productivity, leisure, spectacle, and technology.

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