Attunement : architectural meaning after the crisis of modern science / Alberto Pérez Gómez.

Attunement : architectural meaning after the crisis of modern science /

How architecture can move beyond the contemporary enthusiasms for the technically sustainable and the formally dazzling to enhance our human values and capacities.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pérez Gómez, Alberto, 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Architecture > Philosophy.
Architecture > Psychological aspects.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Role of Architecture and Urban Design in Psychosomatic Health; 1 Atmospheres and Moods; 2 Architecture as Communicative Setting 1: Premodern Musical Atmospheres; 3 Architecture as Communicative Setting 2: Modern Poetic Atmospheres; 4 Architecture as an Unveiling of Place; 5 Stimmung, Phenomenology, and Enactive Cognitive Theory: From Habit to Language; 6 The Linguistic Dimension of Architecture: Attunement and the Poetic Word; 7 Representation and the Linguistic Imagination; 8 Architecture and Spiritus in the Twenty-First Century; Notes; Index.

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