The Advanced School of Collective Feeling

"This jog through the history of physical culture vis- -vis modern architecture features a series of drawings (beautifully rendered in metallic ink over black paper) and an impressive assortment of archival imagery. Taking the book over the finish line: a collection of somersaulting, weightlifting, and jet-ing silhouettes that are bound to elicit more than a few smiles." Architectural Record The Advanced School of Collective Feeling explores the advent of radical new conceptions of the bodya phenomenon known in the 1920s and 30s as physical cultureand their impact on the thinking of some of modern architectures most influential figures. Using archival photographs, diagrams, and plans, the book reconstructs a constellation of provocative domestic projects by Marcel Breuer, Charlotte Perriand, Richard Neutra, and others. This obscure chapter in the modern movement gestures towards a remarkable synthesis of the individual and the collective, a perspective that holds enormous potential for articulating an architecture of today.