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Richard L. Cleary - Architecture of the Playing Field, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Architecture of the Playing Field

Shaping Space in Sport

Av Richard L. Cleary

Del i serien Terry and Jan Todd Series on Physical Culture and Sports

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A novel exploration of playing fields as aesthetic and architectural spaces that frame athletes' creativity and spectators' evolving experiences of sport.The playing field is a laboratory of invention, where athletes and coaches create new uses for the human body in response to the constraints and affordance of space. The Architecture of the Playing Field explores the aesthetic and physical experiences of the grounds on which we compete, from translucent squash courts to the NBA three-point line to the city streets adopted by skateboarders.Richard Cleary digs into the perspectives of spectators, athletes, coaches, and umpires, which have changed along with the shifting configuration of the playing surface and the mediation of the action, from early sports coverage to today's high-tech TV broadcasts. He shows how rules governing the size, shape, and divisions of the field reflect sports' entwinement with societies at large, in particular the politics of race and gender. Mindful as well that some sports resist containment, he analyzes the disruptive use of space by snowboarders and parkour athletes. The Architecture of the Playing Field sensitizes us to the interplay of settings and bodies in motion fundamental to the power of sport.
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Richard L. Cleary is a professor emeritus in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught architectural history and theory. He is the author and editor of multiple books, including The Place Royale and Urban Design in the Ancien RÉgime and Merchant Prince and Master Builder: Edgar J. Kaufmann and Frank Lloyd Wright.

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"Richard Cleary explores the relationships between the rule-based structural features of sport, the contexts in which sport takes place, and the aesthetics of athletes moving through constrained space, as understood through the lens of architecture and undergirded by a wealth of sport-historical knowledge. In informed, engaging prose, The Architecture of the Playing Field makes a significant contribution to the field of sport aesthetics and will be welcomed by a wide range of scholars in sport, architecture, applied aesthetics, and beyond." - Jason Holt, Acadia University, author of Kinetic Beauty: The Philosophical Aesthetics of Sport"In this innovative book, Richard Cleary contends that applying architecture’s inquiries to sport can give us new ways of reading the field. Exploring a topic that has largely resided outside of architectural history, The Architecture of the Playing Field offers up novel, well-sourced insights, showing there is much to gain from this fresh premise." - Benjamin Flowers, Ohio State University, author of Beautiful Moves: Designing Stadia"[Cleary's book] provides a concise yet thorough resource...[that] combines historical design, sociocultural theory, urban planning, and architectural design theory to demonstrate that playing spaces are [not only]...influenced by culture and values, but can also influence the rules governing our sports...The writing style contains a perfect balance of academic concepts and language, yet is accessible to anyone interested in playing space design, urban planning, policymaking, or sport media production." - (Global Sport Business Journal)

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