TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pérez Gómez,Alberto
TI  - Built upon love: architectural longing after ethics and aesthetics 
SN  - 0262162385 (hc : alk. paper)
AV  - NA2500 .P455 2006
U1  - 720.1 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Love
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -