Lire des livres The Archisutra
By Miguel Bolivar
The Archisutra is a design manual giving you the necessary data for a selection
of sex positions, using annotated scale drawings and informative
descriptions.Swiss architect Le Corbusier coined the phrase ?machines for
living?, within his book, ?Towards an Architecture? in 1923. Sex plays a large role
in society and everyday life. So, why is it so often overlooked when an architect
designs a building?The Archisutra raises the question: How should we design
for sex?In 1490 Leonardo da Vinci sketched the Vitruvian Man, a diagram
showing the proportions of man based on the writings of Vitruvius in 400AD.
The sketch of the Vitruvian Man depicts the perfect male form as seen by
Vitruvius. Vitruvius aimed to discover the mathematical proportions of the
human body and use the findings to improve the function and appearance of
architecture.In more modern times, the architect Le Corbusier devised an
anthropometric scale of proportions, a further development from Vitruvius?
work. He called his
