Attunement
Author: Perez-Gomez, Alberto
ISBN: 9780262528641
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 26 Feb 2016
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback / softback
b>How architecture can move beyond the contemporary enthusiasms for the technically sustainable and the formally dazzling to enhance our human values and capacities./b>p>Architecture remains in crisis, its social relevance lost between the two poles of formal innovation and technical sustainability. In i>Attunement/i>, Alberto Perez-G mez calls for an architecture that can enhance our human values and capacities, an architecture that is connected-attuned-to its location and its inhabitants. Architecture, Perez-G mez explains, operates as a communicative setting for societies; its beauty and its meaning lie in its connection to human health and self-understanding./p>p>Our physical places are of utmost importance for our well-being. Drawing on recent work in embodied cognition, Perez-G mez argues that the environment, including the built environment, matters not only as a material ecology but because it is nothing less than a constituent part of our consciousness. To be fully self-aware, we need an external environment replete with meanings and emotions./p>p>Perez-G mez views architecture through the lens of mood and atmosphere, linking these ideas to the key German concept of i>Stimmung/i>-attunement-and its roots in Pythagorean harmony and Vitruvian temperance or proportion. He considers the primacy of place over space; the linguistic aspect of architecture-the voices of architecture and the voice of the architect; architecture as a multisensory (not pictorial) experience, with Piranesi, Ledoux, and Hejduk as examples of metaphorical modeling; and how i>Stimmung/i> might be put to work today to realize the contemporary possibilities of attunement./p>BR>BR>b>How architecture can move beyond the contemporary enthusiasms for the technically sustainable and the formally dazzling to enhance our human values and capacities./b>p>Architecture remains in crisis, its social relevance lost between the two poles of formal innovation and technical sustainability. In i>Attunement/i>, Alberto Perez-G mez calls for an architecture that can enhance our human values and capacities, an architecture that is connected-attuned-to its location and its inhabitants. Architecture, Perez-G mez explains, operates as a communicative setting for societies; its beauty and its meaning lie in its connection to human health and self-understanding./p>p>Our physical places are of utmost importance for our well-being. Drawing on recent work in embodied cognition, Perez-G mez argues that the environment, including the built environment, matters not only as a material ecology but because it is nothing less than a constituent part of our consciousness. To be fully self-aware, we need an external environment replete with meanings and emotions./p>p>Perez-G mez views architecture through the lens of mood and atmosphere, linking these ideas to the key German concept of i>Stimmung/i>-attunement-and its roots in Pythagorean harmony and Vitruvian temperance or proportion. He considers the primacy of place over space; the linguistic aspect of architecture-the voices of architecture and the voice of the architect; architecture as a multisensory (not pictorial) experience, with Piranesi, Ledoux, and Hejduk as examples of metaphorical modeling; and how i>Stimmung/i> might be put to work today to realize the contemporary possibilities of attunement./p>
ISBN: 9780262528641
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 26 Feb 2016
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback / softback
b>How architecture can move beyond the contemporary enthusiasms for the technically sustainable and the formally dazzling to enhance our human values and capacities./b>p>Architecture remains in crisis, its social relevance lost between the two poles of formal innovation and technical sustainability. In i>Attunement/i>, Alberto Perez-G mez calls for an architecture that can enhance our human values and capacities, an architecture that is connected-attuned-to its location and its inhabitants. Architecture, Perez-G mez explains, operates as a communicative setting for societies; its beauty and its meaning lie in its connection to human health and self-understanding./p>p>Our physical places are of utmost importance for our well-being. Drawing on recent work in embodied cognition, Perez-G mez argues that the environment, including the built environment, matters not only as a material ecology but because it is nothing less than a constituent part of our consciousness. To be fully self-aware, we need an external environment replete with meanings and emotions./p>p>Perez-G mez views architecture through the lens of mood and atmosphere, linking these ideas to the key German concept of i>Stimmung/i>-attunement-and its roots in Pythagorean harmony and Vitruvian temperance or proportion. He considers the primacy of place over space; the linguistic aspect of architecture-the voices of architecture and the voice of the architect; architecture as a multisensory (not pictorial) experience, with Piranesi, Ledoux, and Hejduk as examples of metaphorical modeling; and how i>Stimmung/i> might be put to work today to realize the contemporary possibilities of attunement./p>BR>BR>b>How architecture can move beyond the contemporary enthusiasms for the technically sustainable and the formally dazzling to enhance our human values and capacities./b>p>Architecture remains in crisis, its social relevance lost between the two poles of formal innovation and technical sustainability. In i>Attunement/i>, Alberto Perez-G mez calls for an architecture that can enhance our human values and capacities, an architecture that is connected-attuned-to its location and its inhabitants. Architecture, Perez-G mez explains, operates as a communicative setting for societies; its beauty and its meaning lie in its connection to human health and self-understanding./p>p>Our physical places are of utmost importance for our well-being. Drawing on recent work in embodied cognition, Perez-G mez argues that the environment, including the built environment, matters not only as a material ecology but because it is nothing less than a constituent part of our consciousness. To be fully self-aware, we need an external environment replete with meanings and emotions./p>p>Perez-G mez views architecture through the lens of mood and atmosphere, linking these ideas to the key German concept of i>Stimmung/i>-attunement-and its roots in Pythagorean harmony and Vitruvian temperance or proportion. He considers the primacy of place over space; the linguistic aspect of architecture-the voices of architecture and the voice of the architect; architecture as a multisensory (not pictorial) experience, with Piranesi, Ledoux, and Hejduk as examples of metaphorical modeling; and how i>Stimmung/i> might be put to work today to realize the contemporary possibilities of attunement./p>
