Built upon love : architectural longing after ethics and aesthetics / Alberto Pérez-Gómez.

By:

Pérez Gómez, Alberto, 1949-

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2006Description: x, 247 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

0262162385 (hc : alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

720.1 22

LOC classification:

NA2500 .P455 2006

Contents:

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.

Review: "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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Includes index.

"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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