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Typology: Gymnasium - The Architectural Review

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Invented by the Ancient Greeks, the gym has served as a social institution that has impacted not only the body but also the mind ‘I do hope it’ll make me grow large again’, Alice says on finding the bottle marked ‘DRINK ME’, ‘for really I’m quite tired of being such a tiny little thing!’ We all know the consequences of that decision: ‘she went on growing, and growing, and very soon had to kneel down on the floor … and, as a last resource, she put one arm out of the window, and one foot up the chimney.’ Although Alice’s adventure is presented as an ill-advised drug experiment with nightmarish results, there are many people today who clamour for such experiences. Admittedly, the effects of anabolic steroids are not quite so dramatic, yet the swelling body that expands to fill the area around it is undoubtedly part of the fantasy of committed weightlifters, altogether tired of being such tiny little things. The aim of this most obtrusive form of self-modification – in an age permeated by

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