{"product_id":"the-architecture-of-the-playing-field-shaping-space-in-sport-hardback-9781477331293","title":"The Architecture of the Playing Field; Shaping Space in Sport (Hardback) 9781477331293","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Architecture of the Playing Field\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eShaping Space in Sport\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRichard L. Cleary (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477331293, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 6 May 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e192 pages, 34 b\u0026amp;w photos\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm, 0.399 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eRichard 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Architecture of the Playing Field\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/div\u003e - Jason Holt, Acadia University, author of Kinetic Beauty: The Philosophical Aesthetics of Sport \u003cdiv\u003eIn 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Architecture of the Playing Field\u003c\/i\u003e offers up novel, well-sourced insights, showing there is much to gain from this fresh premise.\u003c\/div\u003e - Benjamin Flowers, Ohio State University, author of Beautiful Moves: Designing Stadia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA novel exploration of playing fields as aesthetic and architectural spaces that frame athletes’ creativity and spectators’ evolving experiences of sport.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e The playing field is more than an arena for sporting rivalry. It is a laboratory of invention, where athletes and coaches create new uses for the human body in response to the constraints and affordances of space. Indeed, Richard Cleary argues that, from translucent squash courts to the NBA three-point line to the city streets used by skateboarders, all sports have embedded spatial relationships that are also charged with social significance. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Architecture of the Playing Field\u003c\/i\u003e explores the aesthetic and physical experiences of the grounds on which we compete. Cleary digs into the perspectives of spectators, athletes, coaches, and umpires-perspectives that have changed along with the shifting configuration and mediation of the field, from early live sports coverage to today’s TV broadcasts overlaid with high-tech graphics and observed from every angle. Cleary 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Architecture of the Playing Field\u003c\/i\u003e sensitizes us to the interplay of settings and bodies in motion fundamental to the power of sport. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e List of Illustrations \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 1. Frames \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 2. Mediated Space \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 3. Laboratories of Spatial Invention \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chapter 4. Sports, Space, and Culture \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Epilogue. Big Air \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Bibliography \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52735372787992,"sku":"9781477331293","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-architecture-of-the-playing-field-shaping-space-in-sport-hardback-9781477331293","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}