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Built upon love : architectural longing after ethics and aesthetics /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pérez Gómez, Alberto, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Architecture and Human Desire
  • Eros, Seduction, and the Poetic Image in Architecture: Form
  • Eros and Creation
  • Eros and Limits
  • Eros and the Poetic Image Interlude: Eros, Philia, and Agape II Philia, Compassion, and the Ethical Dimension of Architecture: Program
  • Philia, Ritual, and Decorum
  • Architecture at the Limits of Language
  • The Language of Philia in Architectural Theory
  • A Tale of Two Brothers: Jean-Louis and Charles-Franc̜ois Viel
  • Poetry and Meaning from within a (Western) Architectural Tradition
  • The Ethical Image in Architecture.