Polyphilo, or the Dark Forest Revisited: An Erotic Epiphany of Architecture - Softcover

Alberto Perez-Gomez

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262660903 ISBN 13: 9780262660907

Publisher: Mit Pr, 1994

Synopsis

Departing from the conventional genres of architectural writing, this book is a completely original reflection on the erotics of architecture. Pérez-Gómez retells the love story of the famous Renaissance novel/treatise Hypnerotomachia Poliphili in late twentieth-century terms. The original work, long a cult book among architects, takes place in a forest. In the retelling, the forest has been replaced by the high- tech environment of appliances and airports. Both versions exist somewhere in the borderland between fiction, theory, and pornography.

About this title

About the Author:

Alberto Pérez-Gómez is Saidye Rosner Bronfman Professor of the History of Architecture at McGill University. He is the author of Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science (MIT Press, 1983) and (with Louise Pelletier) Architecural Representation and the Perspective Hinge (MIT Press, 1997).

Review:

"A brilliantly sharp and original reflection on the pop aspects of our visual culture.... Readers interested in Renaissance mysticism, in architecture and the technology culture, and in the erotics of comic book machismo, will be eager to read Pérez-Gómez."
—George L. Hersey, Yale University

About this edition

• Publisher: Mit Pr
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0262660903
• ISBN 13: 9780262660907
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344