Built upon Love By Alberto Pérez-Gómez, MIT Press, £18.95

By Tim Wray Tim Wray 2006-09-27T00:00:00

MIT Press, £18.95We experience buildings through our sexual bodies, loves and desires, and should think about and build them accordingly, claims Pérez-Gómez. Sweeping through the history of Western architecture, this accomplished piece of scholarship takes us on a tour of ideas on love, imagination, time, ritual, poetry, philosophy and ethics.

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