Attunement : architectural meaning after the crisis of modern science /

Pérez Gómez, Alberto, 1949-

Attunement : architectural meaning after the crisis of modern science / Alberto Pérez Gómez. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (xii, 287 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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



9780262333320 9780262333313


Architecture--Philosophy.
Architecture--Psychological aspects.

ARCHITECTURE/General ARCHITECTURE/Architectural Theory & Criticism


Electronic Books.

NA2500 / .A888 2016