Pérez Gómez, Alberto,  1949- <br/><br/>
Built upon love :  architectural longing after ethics and aesthetics / 
Alberto Pérez-Gómez. 
 - x, 247 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/> Introduction : architecture and human desire --  Eros and creation --  Eros and limits --  Eros and the poetic image --  Interlude : Eros, philia, and agape --  Philia, ritual, and decorum --  Architecture at the limits of language --  The language of philia in architectural theory --  The tale of two brothers : Jean-Louis and Charles-Francois Viel --  Poetry and meaning from within a (western) architectural tradition --  The ethical image in architecture.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9. 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0262162385 (hc : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005056164 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Architecture--Aesthetics<br/>Architecture--Moral and ethical aspects<br/>Love.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NA2500  / .P455 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>720.1