The Architecture of the Playing Field
192 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
Hardcover
Release Date:06 May 2025
ISBN:9781477331293
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The Architecture of the Playing Field

Shaping Space in Sport

University of Texas Press
A novel exploration of playing fields as aesthetic and architectural spaces that frame athletes’ creativity and spectators’ evolving experiences of sport.
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Frames
  • Chapter 2. Mediated Space
  • Chapter 3. Laboratories of Spatial Invention
  • Chapter 4. Sports, Space, and Culture
  • Epilogue. Big Air
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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