Contemporary philosophers, sociologists of the body and anthropologists have observed and claimed that modern Western society is typified by a certain ‘disembodied’ style fo life. Where lie the deep causes of an unstable relation of man with his body, and his surroundings, which are modified in accordance to the first?
The history of body in West world is one of controversial thought and consideration. Many characterisations have been given to it in different periods. In the late 19th century the prevailing ‘bodily presence’ is this of the ‘fatigued body’. Modernism’s attempts to intervene and control the body, are related to the desire to rest it. During this process several misconceptions established concerning how man and his body could rest. Most of them eventually led to passivity.
Man-made artificial environments, constant and constantly emerging, become essential agents, which promote means and places for rest. How the latter are embedded in the architectural, designed enviro
