Built upon Love
Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics
$70.86
- Paperback
260 pages
- Release Date
15 February 2008
Summary
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 continu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262662055 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262662051 |
| Author: | Alberto Pérez-Gómez |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 260 |
| Release Date: | 15 February 2008 |
| Weight: | 363g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Built upon Love |
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It is as if the author has created a gathering of characters from history (Ficino, Vico, Piranesi, and others who advocated a poetic vision of architecture) outside of time. The book’s riveting moments stem from the author’s intimate rapport with them.
* Canadian Architect *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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