Pérez-Gómez, Alberto. <br/><br/>
Built upon Love :  Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (260 pages) 
 - The MIT Press Series .
 - The MIT Press Series .
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780262281409 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Architecture -- Aesthetics.<br/>Architecture -- Moral and ethical aspects.<br/>Love.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NA2500.P455 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>720.1