Built upon Love: Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics

by Alberto Pérez-Gómez

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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 architecture--opposing art to social interests, ethics to poetic expression--obscures the deep connections between ethical and poetical values in...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0262662051

ISBN13:9780262662055

Release Date:February 2008

Publisher:MIT Press

Length:260 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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