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Attunement

Architectural Meaning after the Crisis of Modern Science

By: Alberto Perez-Gomez

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Attunement

Architectural Meaning after the Crisis of Modern Science

By: Alberto Perez-Gomez

How architecture can move beyond the contemporary enthusiasms for the technically sustainable and the formally dazzling to enhance our human values and capacities. Architecture remains in crisis, its social relevance lost between the two poles of formal innovation and technical sustainability. In Attunement, Alberto Pérez-Gómez calls for an architecture that can enhance our human values and capacities, an architecture that is connected—attuned—to its location and its inhabitants. Architecture, Pérez-Gómez explains, operates as a communicative setting for societies; its beauty and its meaning lie in its connection to human health and self-understanding. Our physical places are of utmost importance for our well-being. Drawing on recent work in embodied cognition, Pérez-Gómez argues that the environment, including the built environment, matters not only as a material ecology but because it is nothing less than a constituent part of our consciousness. To be fully self-aware, we need an external environment replete with meanings and emotions. Pérez-Gómez views architecture through the lens of mood and atmosphere, linking these ideas to the key German concept of Stimmung—attunement—and its roots in Pythagorean harmony and Vitruvian temperance or proportion. He considers the primacy of place over space; the linguistic aspect of architecture—the voices of architecture and the voice of the architect; architecture as a multisensory (not pictorial) experience, with Piranesi, Ledoux, and Hejduk as examples of metaphorical modeling; and how Stimmung might be put to work today to realize the contemporary possibilities of attunement.

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MIT Press

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0262528649

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Built upon Love

Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics

By: Alberto Perez-Gomez

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Built upon Love

Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics

By: Alberto Perez-Gomez

A vision of architecture that transcends concerns of form and function and finds the connections between the architect's wish to design a beautiful world and architecture's imperative to provide a better place for society. The forced polarity between form and function in considerations of architecture—opposing art to social interests, ethics to poetic expression—obscures the deep connections between ethical and poetical values in architectural tradition. Architecture has been, and must continue to be, writes Alberto Pérez-Gómez, built upon love. Modernity has rightly rejected past architectural excesses, but, Pérez-Gómez argues, the materialistic and technological alternatives it proposes do not answer satisfactorily the complex desire that defines humanity. True architecture is concerned with far more than fashionable form, affordable homes, and sustainable development; it responds to a desire for an eloquent place to dwell—one that lovingly provides a sense of order resonant with our dreams. In Built upon Love Pérez-Gómez uncovers the relationship between love and architecture in order to find the points of contact between poetics and ethics—between the architect's wish to design a beautiful world and architecture's imperative to provide a better place for society. Eros, as first imagined by the early lyric poets of classical Greece, is the invisible force at the root of our capacity to create and comprehend the poetic image. Pérez-Gómez examines the nature of architectural form in the light of eros, seduction, and the tradition of the poetic image in Western architecture. He charts the ethical dimension of architecture, tracing the connections between philia—the love of friends that entails mutual responsibility among equals—and architectural program. He explores the position of architecture at the limits of language and discusses the analogical language of philia in modernist architectural theory. Finally, he uncovers connections between ethics and poetics, describing a contemporary practice of architecture under the sign of love, incorporating both eros and philia.

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0262264226

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Built upon Love

Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics

By: Alberto Perez-Gomez

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Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics

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Attunement

Architectural Meaning after the Crisis of Modern Science

By: Alberto Perez-Gomez

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Architectural Meaning after the Crisis of Modern Science

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Chora 7

Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture

By: Alberto Pérez-Gómez,Stephen Parcell

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Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture

By: Alberto Pérez-Gómez,Stephen Parcell

A diverse collection of essays in the history and philosophy of architecture.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773547029

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9780773547025

Polyphilo, Or, The Dark Forest Revisited

An Erotic Epiphany of Architecture

By: Alberto Pérez Gómez

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Polyphilo, Or, The Dark Forest Revisited

An Erotic Epiphany of Architecture

By: Alberto Pérez Gómez

Departing from the conventional genres of architectural writing, this book is a completely original reflection on the erotics of architecture. Perez-Gomez retells the love story of the famous Renaissance novel/treatise Hypnerotomachia Poliphili in late twentieth-century terms. The original work, long a cult book among architects, takes place in a forest. In the retelling, the forest has been replaced by the high- tech environment of appliances and airports. Both versions exist somewhere in the borderland between fiction, theory, and pornography.

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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press

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026216129X

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9780262161299

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