Attunement
Architectural Meaning after the Crisis of Modern Science
$70.86
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
26 February 2016
Summary
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 Perez-G mez 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,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262528641 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262528649 |
| Author: | Alberto Pérez-Gómez |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 26 February 2016 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 19mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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About The Author
Alberto Pérez-Gómez
Alberto Perez G mez directs the History and Theory of Architecture Program at McGill University, where he is Saidye Rosner Bronfman Professor of the History of Architecture. He is the author of Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science, Built upon Love- Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics (both published by the MIT Press), and other books.
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