Main entry:

Pérez Gómez, Alberto, 1949-

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006.

Description:

x, 247 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-242) and index.
Introduction: Architecture and human desire -- Eros, seduction, and the poetic image in architecture: Form -- 1. Eros and creation -- 2. Eros and limits -- 3. Eros and the poetic image -- Interlude: Eros, Philia, and Agape -- Philia, compassion, and the ethical dimension of architecture: Program -- 4. Philia, ritual, and decorum -- 5. Architecture at the limits of language -- 6. The language of Philia in architectural theory -- 7. A 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.
CCA mentioned in acknowledgments.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"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."--Jacket.

Resources:
ebrary

ISBN:

0262162385 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780262162388 (hc ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture Aesthetics.
Architecture Moral and ethical aspects.
Love.
Architecture Esthétique.
Architecture Aspect moral.
Amour.

Added entries:

Centre canadien d'architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 248567
Call No.: NA2500 .P47 2006
Status: Available