{"product_id":"the-architecture-of-bathing-isbn-9780262044219","title":"The Architecture of Bathing","description":"\u003cb\u003eA celebration of communal bathing—swimming pools, saunas, beaches, ritual baths, sweat lodges, and more—viewed through the lens of architecture and landscape.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Architecture of Bathing\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Architecture of Bathing\u003c\/i\u003e offers a celebration of spaces in which public and private, sacred and profane, ritual and habitual, pure and impure, nature and culture commingle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePearson takes a wide-ranging view of her subject, drawing on architecture, art, and literary works. Each chapter is structured around an architectural typology and explores an accompanying theme—for example, tub, sensuality; river, flow; waterfall, rejuvenation; and banya, immersion. Offering examples, introducing relevant theory, and recounting personal experiences, Pearson effortlessly combines a practitioner's zest with astonishing erudition. As she examines these forms, we see that they are inextricable from landscapes, bodily practices, and cultural production. Looking more closely, we experience architecture itself as an immersive material and social space, embedded inthe interdependent environmental and cultural fabric of our world.\u003c\/p\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Bodies\u003cbr\u003e 1. Tub: Sensual form\u003cbr\u003e 2. Thermae: Tactical eroticism\u003cbr\u003e 3. Public Baths: Gathering community\u003cbr\u003e Landscapes\u003cbr\u003e 4. Waterfall: Rejuvenation\u003cbr\u003e 5. Spring: Purity and impurity\u003cbr\u003e 6. Sea: Rhythmic theater\u003cbr\u003e 7. River: Flow dynamics\u003cbr\u003e 8. Pool: Play of volumes\u003cbr\u003e 9. Pond: Reflection and depth\u003cbr\u003e Practices\u003cbr\u003e 10. Banya: Immersive technologies\u003cbr\u003e 11. Hammam: Ritual generators\u003cbr\u003e 12. Jjimjilbang: Ecological networks\u003cbr\u003e 13. Sauna: Composing contrast\u003cbr\u003e 14. Sento: Artificial landscapes\u003cbr\u003e 15. Sweat Lodge: Healing transgressions\u003cbr\u003e Coda\u003cbr\u003e List of Images\u003cbr\u003e List of Resources\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\"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, \u003ci\u003eThe Architecture of Bathing: Body, Landscape, Art,\u003c\/i\u003e careens around in time and place and ponders 'the bath’s utopian and dystopian aspects.'\" \u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “The award-winning Canadian architect and urban interventionist takes a thematic view of form and landscape in this wide-ranging survey of communal bathing’s natural and built environments.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Architecture of Bathing\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Pearson’s book moves from aquatic centre to sentō, waterfall to thermae bath, hammam to mud bath… in a stimulating, inclusive study of a social activity\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—RIBA Journal \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Architecture of Bathing\u003c\/i\u003e is inherently about sense and censure: an excellent study into the artistic, medicinal and spiritual qualities of public bathing.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e— Aesthetica Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eChristie 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 \u003ci\u003eScapegoat\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300669247717,"sku":"NP9780262044219","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262044219.jpg?v=1767738123","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-architecture-of-bathing-isbn-9780262044219","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}