as operable themes towards sovereign ends. Whereas the vernacular use of the noun ‘norm’ had to do with geometry, with ‘right angles’ and perpendicular lines, its adjectival derivation ‘normal’ is defined in 1828 in the Oxford English Dictionary as ‘constituting, conforming to, not deviating or differ from, the common type or standard.’ The emergence of the adjectival form of the noun is the first historical clue that suggests a symbolic shift that happened throughout the eighteenth century from the language of geometry to that of biological matter.Ĭlinical medicine and its codification of the physical body stand as the pivotal discipline that takes a set practices and discourses that rendered issues of nationality, gender, race, etc. Pertaining to the carpenter’s square or rule norma is first codified in the early nineteenth century as ‘standard, pattern, model’ as evidence of its common usage. Norms, have long inhabited the architect’s toolset. This essay draws a speculative history from the point when modern architecture ceases to account for, to become accountable for normalizing that body.
In light of the increasing pervasiveness of bespoke biometric solutions and applications in architecture and design, this essay seeks to offer a different genealogy of the entanglement between architecture standards and statistical methods of measuring the social body. NORM, MEASURE OF ALL THINGS By Sofia LemosĪrchitectural practice and theoretical discourse has considered Ernst Neufert’s canonical Architects’ Data (1936) as a product the search for an optimal built environment based on accounts of a single normative body. The violence that results from this process is then proportional to the degree of difference that the considered body has vis-a-vis this normative invented body. Interested readers can make Sofia’s text dialog with a text I wrote in the past, entitled “ Transgressing the Idealized Normative Body.” Her text is more anchored within a historical genesis of the normative process in the context of design, but we both see in Ernst Neufert’s work, the paroxysm of such practice that constructs a normative body to be used as an paradoxically ideal - it is a paradox since ideal and norm commonly appear as antithetic - to design space around it. In the following text, she establishes a short genealogy of the norm being recognized and constructed through a scientific approach to be later used as a standard on which to define space and architecture. Ernst Neufert (es) Нойферт, Эрнст (ru) Ernst Neufert (fr) Ernst Neufert (cs) ארנסט נויפרט (he) Ernst Neufert (it) Ernst Neufert (nds) Ernst Neufert (ast) Ernst Neufert (ca) Ernst Neufert (nn) Ernst Neufert (de) Ernst Neufert (pt) Ernst Neufert (sq) ارنست نویفرت (fa) Ернст Нойферт (bg) Ernst Neufert (da) Ernst Neufert (sl) Ernst Neufert (sv) Ernst Neufert (pt-br) Ernst Neufert (hu) ارنسانت نيوفيرت (arz) Ernst Neufert (pl) Ернст Нойферт (uk) Ernst Neufert (nl) Ernst Neufert (oc) data arsitek (id) Ернст Нојферт (mk) Ernst Neufert (fi) Ernst Neufert (en) إرنست نيوفيرت (ar) Ερνστ Νόιφερτ (el) Ernst Neufert (nb) architetto tedesco (it) জার্মান স্থপতি (bn) architecte allemand (fr) Saksamaa arhitekt (et) arquitecte alemany (ca) немецкий архитектор (ru) deutscher Architekt, Bauhauslehrer, Autor der Bauentwurfslehre (de) professor académico alemão (pt) German architect (en-gb) معمار آلمانی (fa) Γερμανός αρχιτέκτονας (el) tysk arkitekt (da) arhitect german (ro) مهندس معماري ألماني (ar) German architect (en) arquitecto alemán (es) tysk arkitekt (sv) tysk arkitekt (nn) німецький архітектор, викладач університету (uk) Duits architect (nl) אדריכל גרמני (he) architekt niemiecki (pl) arkitekt gjerman (sq) tysk arkitekt (nb) arquitecto alemán (gl) German architect (en-ca) německý architekt (cs) ailtire Gearmánach (ga) Эрнст Нойферт (ru) E.This new Funambulist Paper is written by friend Sofia Lemos, public programmer and researcher based in London, and with whom I have been sharing great interest for the relationships developed between the human body and the norm, as well as the violence that result from this encounter.
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