Attunement : architectural meaning after the crisis of modern science /
Alberto P�erez G�omez.
- 1 online resource (xii, 287 pages)
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references 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.