false 149371 0 0 255602 0262162385 9780262162388 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173193734m/255602.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173193734s/255602.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/255602.Built_upon_Love_Architectural_Longing_after_Ethics_and_Aesthetics 4.50 6 Built upon Love Pérez-Gómez 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 architecture's imperative to provide a better place for society.

Eros, as first imagined by the early lyric poets of classical Greece, is the invisible force at the root of our capacity to create and comprehend the poetic image. Pérez-Gómez examines the nature of architectural form in the light of eros, seduction, and the tradition of the poetic image in Western architecture. He charts the ethical dimension of architecture, tracing the connections between philia--the love of friends that entails mutual responsibility among equals--and architectural program. He explores the position of architecture at the limits of language and discusses the analogical language of philia in modernist architectural theory. Finally, he uncovers connections between ethics and poetics, describing a contemporary practice of architecture under the sign of love, incorporating both eros and philia.]]> 149371 3.95 21 5 2006 724302 0262661136 9780262661133 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177651136m/724302.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177651136s/724302.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/724302.Architectural_Representation_and_the_Perspective_Hinge 4.00 6
The book examines textual evidence across a broad historical period, concentrating on the relationship between drawing and architectural space in the period from the seventh century to the twentieth century. The book discusses such issues as optical correction and the nature of architectural drawing in selected treatises, revealing the complexity and potential contradiction inherent in any linear history of representation. The authors' ultimate aim is to probe the possibilities of the constructed world--that is, architecture--as a poetic translation, rather than prosaic transcription, of its representations.]]> 149371 3.95 21 5 30310 4.00 6 2 1997 1464862 0262660555 9780262660556 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183879615m/1464862.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183879615s/1464862.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1464862.Architecture_and_the_Crisis_of_Modern_Science 3.80 5
Alberto Pérez-Gómez is Director of the School of Architecture at Carleton University in Ottowa.]]> 149371 3.95 21 5 1983 2275052 0262660903 9780262660907 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2275052.Polyphilo_or_The_Dark_Forest_Revisited_An_Erotic_Epiphany_of_Architecture 2.67 3 149371 3.95 21 5 1992 6591767 0773512764 9780773512764 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6591767-chora 0.0 0 149371 3.95 21 5 2003 6591768 0773517111 9780773517110 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6591768-chora-3 0.0 0 149371 3.95 21 5 2003 6591766 0773514066 9780773514065 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6591766-chora-2 0.0 0 149371 3.95 21 5 2003 6591765 0773514074 9780773514072 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6591765-chora-2 0.0 0 149371 3.95 21 5 2003 6591763 0773511938 9780773511934 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6591763-chora-1 0.0 0 149371 3.95 21 5 2003 2275053 0773511482 9780773511484 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2275053.Architecture_Ethics_and_Technology 0.0 0
An enlightened discussion of all relevant aspects of architecture shows the necessity for revision of commonly held assumptions about the nature of architectural history, theory, representation, and ideation; the production of buildings in the postindustrial city; and professional ethics. These topics provide the basis for the fourteen interdisciplinary papers presented here.

The introductory section includes an examination of the epistemological origins of technology in the early modern European context and two alternative visions of ethics and its potential relevance for architecture. The second part presents four perspectives on important questions about how we represent buildings and the ethical values involved in that representation. "Ethics and Poetics in the Context of Technological Production" considers the role of philosophical ethics (i.e., a rational structure of categories in architectural practice) and the possibility, and desirability, of incorporating ethical reflections into the generation of architectural form. "The Architectural Uses of History and Narrative in a Technocratic World" explores alternatives for articulating an ethical attitude in forms of discourse other than philosophy and science.

These papers were originally presented at the bilingual symposium "Architecture, Ethics, and Technology" held at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal in 1991.]]> 30310 4.00 6 2 149371 3.95 21 5 1994