Polyphilo, or, The dark forest revisited : an erotic epiphany of architecture / Alberto Pérez-Gómez.

Main entry:

Pérez Gómez, Alberto, 1949-

Title & Author:

Polyphilo, or, The dark forest revisited : an erotic epiphany of architecture / Alberto Pérez-Gómez.

Publication:

Description:

xxvii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Based on: Hypnerotomachia Poliphili / Francesco Colonna.
Includes bibliographical references.
Current Copyright Fee: GBP15.00 0.

Summary:

Departing from the conventional genres of architectural writing, this book is a completely original reflection on the erotics of architecture. Perez-Gomez retells the love story of the famous Renaissance novel/treatise Hypnerotomachia Poliphili in late twentieth-century terms. The original work, long a cult book among architects, takes place in a forest. In the retelling, the forest has been replaced by the high- tech environment of appliances and airports. Both versions exist somewhere in the borderland between fiction, theory, and pornography.

ISBN:

026216129X
9780262161299
0262660768 (pbk.)
9780262660761 (pbk.)
0262660903 (pbk.)
9780262660907 (pbk.)

Subject:

Colonra, Francesco, m. 1527. Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
Colonna, Francesco 1433-1527
Colonna, Francesco 1433-1527 Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
Colonna, Francesco. Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.
Architecture and literature.
Architecture Philosophy.
Novela inglesa Siglo XX
Architecture et littérature.
Architecture Philosophie.
Architektur
Erotik
Italian fiction

Form/genre:

Fiction
Romans.

Added entries:

Colonna, Francesco, -1527. Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.

Polyphilo
Dark forest revisited

Holdings:

Location: Library main 72338
Call No.: ID:92-B1163
Status: Available

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