Built upon love : architectural longing after ethics and aesthetics / Alberto Pérez-Gómez.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2006Description: x, 247 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0262162385 (hc : alk. paper)
- 720.1 22
- NA2500 .P455 2006
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Includes index.
Introduction : architecture and human desire -- 1. Eros and creation -- 2. Eros and limits -- 3. Eros and the poetic image -- Interlude : Eros, philia, and agape -- 4. Philia, ritual, and decorum -- 5. Architecture at the limits of language -- 6. The language of philia in architectural theory -- 7. The tale of two brothers : Jean-Louis and Charles-Francois Viel -- 8. Poetry and meaning from within a (western) architectural tradition -- 9. The ethical image in architecture.
"In Built upon Love Perez-Gomez 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 the architecture's imperative to provide a better place for society."--BOOK JACKET.
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