LEADER 04808nam 22006614a 450 001 9910451917803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-09818-7 010 $a9786612098185 010 $a0-262-28140-6 010 $a1-4237-8720-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000461576 035 $a(EBL)3338631 035 $a(OCoLC)70273074 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000115880 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11139949 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000115880 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10027282 035 $a(PQKB)10641343 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3338631 035 $a(OCoLC)70273074$z(OCoLC)191950326$z(OCoLC)473859983$z(OCoLC)614968303$z(OCoLC)648226025$z(OCoLC)722565906$z(OCoLC)888613285$z(OCoLC)961581493 035 $a(OCoLC-P)70273074 035 $a(MaCbMITP)1697 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3338631 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10173692 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL209818 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000461576 100 $a20051031d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBuilt upon love$b[electronic resource] $earchitectural longing after ethics and aesthetics /$fAlberto Pe?rez-Go?mez 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cMIT Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (260 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-262-16238-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [215]-242) and index. 327 $aContents; Acknowledgments; Opening conversation; Introduction: Architecture and Human Desire; I 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; II 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-Franc?ois Viel; 8 Poetry and Meaning from within a (Western) Architectural Tradition 327 $a9 The Ethical Image in ArchitectureNotes; Index 330 $aA 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 Perez-Gomez, built upon love. Modernity has rightly rejected past architectural excesses, but, Perez-Gomez argues, the materialistic and technological alternatives it proposes do not answer satisfactorily the complex desire that defines humanity. True architecture is concerned with far more than fashionable form, affordable homes, and sustainable development; it responds to a desire for an eloquent place to dwell--one that lovingly provides a sense of order resonant with our dreams. 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 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. Perez-Gomez 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. 606 $aArchitecture$xAesthetics 606 $aArchitecture$xMoral and ethical aspects 606 $aLove 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aArchitecture$xAesthetics. 615 0$aArchitecture$xMoral and ethical aspects. 615 0$aLove. 676 $a720.1 700 $aPe?rez Go?mez$b Alberto$f1949-$0498188 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451917803321 996 $aBuilt upon love$92206956 997 $aUNINA