ARCHITECTURE AND THE BODY EROTIC
The act of measuring is fundamental to the theory of architecture. Measurement makes the intangibleness of scale and dimension tangible; the way one constructs the tool of measurement affects the development of space and the minutia of how space is experienced. Throughout history, the human body has been used as a tool to measure ourselves within the world. Such allows us to calibrate how the human body relates to space- whether it be the cubit used in Ancient Egypt, the foot used in the West, or the masu used in Japan. Given that the human body is the center of the praxis of how we measure space, space, and therefore architecture, is inherently erotic. The presented series of photos, inspired by Le Corbusier's Modulor Man, studies a new set of proposed methods for measuring the eroticism and proportions of the human body and therefore a new means of calibrating the eroticism of the human body within architectural space. The photos use the displacement of light across the surfaces of the human body as a new tool of measurement paying special attention to how light frames the body, crops the body, translates the body, blurs the body, and abstracts the body.
