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Alberto Perez-Gomez

Built Upon Love: Architectural Longing After Ethics and Aesthetics

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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 continue to be, writes Alberto Pérez-Gómez, built upon love. Modernity has rightly rejected past architectural excesses, but, Pérez-Gómez argues, the materialis… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-262-66205-5
  • EAN: 9780262662055
  • Produktnummer: 3397665
  • Verlag: Mit Pr
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
  • Seitenangabe: 247 S.
  • Masse: H22.7 cm x B15.3 cm x D1.4 cm 358 g
  • Gewicht: 358
  • Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.

Über den Autor


Alberto Pérez Gómez 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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