The architecture of swimming – Outdoor Swimming Society
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The architecture of swimming – Outdoor Swimming Society
A pool gathers water, and to pool is to collect. […] There needs to be some flow for the pool to keep from stagnating, otherwise it would be called a pond; bathing in ponds, swamps, or bogs is different. A swimming pool holds enough water for people to frolic in, move their limbs, float, or race back and forth. A great deal of effort is made to
... See morePhilosophers and practitioners of architecture have long studied the relationship between physical spaces and ritual, ritual and the creation of culture, culture and the embodiment of thought.
It’s why, as a complete novice to the field, one of the first things you learn is that architecture is an irreducible mode of thinking in its own right . It’s... See more
It’s why, as a complete novice to the field, one of the first things you learn is that architecture is an irreducible mode of thinking in its own right . It’s... See more
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archive.phRoger Deakin, writer of ‘Waterlog’, 2000, ‘it must be a sign of our anglo saxon awkwardness about the pleasures of the flesh that we borrowed the word lido from the Italians, just as we took café, restaurant and champagne from the french. Like restaurants, lidos are about style and sensuality. Iris Murdoch called swimming pools “machines for
... See moreswimming pool emerged for the popularisation of communal, outdoor living.
they were deliberately classless. Unlike their indoor counterparts, there were no first or second class distinctions.
[liquid assets, p.19] Josiah Stamp, Governor of the Bank of England ‘Bathing reduces rich and poor, high and low, to a common standard of enjoyment and
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