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Built upon Love : Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (260 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262281409
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Built upon LoveDDC classification:
  • 720.1
LOC classification:
  • NA2500.P455 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- 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-François Viel -- 8 Poetry and Meaning from within a (Western) Architectural Tradition -- 9 The Ethical Image in Architecture -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: 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.
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Intro -- Contents -- 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-François Viel -- 8 Poetry and Meaning from within a (Western) Architectural Tradition -- 9 The Ethical Image in Architecture -- Notes -- Index.

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.

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