Corpo e architettura, o de humani fabrica

Within architecture, gradually over the centuries, the body has taken on distinct behaviors, from mechanized to absent, from mystical to material. On it the architecture, following precise ideologies of behavior, has raised its walls as powerful as castles, or as transparent as greenhouses, enveloping like churches, claustrophobic like Piranesian dark prisons. The body has been free to move within the architectural thing or forced into it as a recluse. The book investigates some issues of the body that have specifically involved architecture, trying, as far as possible, to trace its eventual epochal destiny. The identity of man is now irremediably shattered. The "enhanced humans" will multiply especially in the military sphere. And the externalization of the Florenskyian organs seems to have undergone a reversal. Architecture, being already a human prosthesis, cannot further prosthesize itself, under penalty of tautology. Man will no longer need to externalize himself in tools or technologies already having everything he needs in himself, even being alien to himself, as Nancy would like, or already outdated, as Gunther Anders suggests, but in this presumed self-sufficiency hides the limit and the limitless of the human, or what remains of it.