Contributors to this volume strive to uncover architectural alternatives to simplistic models based on concepts of aesthetics, technology or sociology. Seventeen essays explore historical topics ranging from antiquity, with a study of the Roman Colosseum, through early Renaissance subjects such as the treatises of Luca Pacioli on architecture, through to the modern era and explorations on topics ranging from 17th-century Amsterdam to architectural insights that can be found in the works of the poet and mathematician Lewis Carroll. Authors examining contemporary issues seek to explicate the...

Contributors to this volume strive to uncover architectural alternatives to simplistic models based on concepts of aesthetics, technology or sociology. Seventeen essays explore historical topics ranging from antiquity, with a study of the Roman Colosseum, through early Renaissance subjects such as the treatises of Luca Pacioli on architecture, through to the modern era and explorations on topics ranging from 17th-century Amsterdam to architectural insights that can be found in the works of the poet and mathematician Lewis Carroll. Authors examining contemporary issues seek to explicate the...

Este poema filosofico en prosa narrativa constituye una reflexion original sobre la erotica de la arquitectura. La obra recibio una entusiasta recepcion critica a raiz de su primera edicion inglesa en 1992 y ha sido actualizada para esta edicion por el autor. Perez-Gomez recuenta la historia de amor del famoso tratado en forma de novela del Renacimiento Italiano Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499) desde una perspectiva contemporanea. La obra original, que ha sido libro de culto de arquitectos, filosofos, alquimistas, escritores y artistas durante muchos siglos, revela el espacio erotico en las...

A diverse collection of essays in the history and philosophy of architecture.

A diverse collection of essays in the history and philosophy of architecture.

This remarkable collection brings together a selection of essays by Alberto Perez-Gomez, originally published in diverse periodicals and as chapters in books, over a period of twenty-five years. The essays have been revised and updated by the author, sometimes substantially modified to reflect more accurately the state of contemporary questions in the field of architecture. While the writing deliberately blurs the edges of history and theory, the essays have been collected in two separate volumes: the first focusing on architectural theories and practices both historical and recent, and the...