P�erez G�omez, Alberto, 1949-

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.

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Architecture--Philosophy.
Architecture--Psychological aspects.
ARCHITECTURE--Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
ARCHITECTURE--Buildings--Landmarks & Monuments.
ARCHITECTURE--Professional Practice.
ARCHITECTURE--Reference.
Architecture--Philosophy.
Architecture--Psychological aspects.

ARCHITECTURE/General ARCHITECTURE/Architectural Theory & Criticism


Electronic books.

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