Built upon love : architectural longing after ethics and aesthetics /

Main Author: Pérez Gómez, Alberto, 1949-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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-Fran̨cois Viel
  • Poetry and Meaning from within a (Western) Architectural Tradition
  • The Ethical Image in Architecture.