Alberto Pérez-Gómez (born 24 December 1949) is an eminent
architectural historian. He is also well known as an theorist with an
orientation rooted in a phenomenological approach to architecture.Born
December 24, 1949, in Mexico City he graduated as an engineer and
architect from the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico.
Afterwards he did postgraduate work at Cornell University. He then
pursued graduate studies in the History and Theory of Architecture at
the University of Essex where he received his Master of Arts in 1975
and Ph.D. in 1979. In 1987 he became a Canadian Citizen and a Quebec
resident. In 1984, he won the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award for his book
Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science. He has taught and
lectured at various schools of architecture around the world and was
director of the Carleton University School of Architecture from 1983
to 1986. Currently, he runs the History and Theory of Architecture
program at the McGill University School of Architecture, where he is
the Saidye Rosner Bronfman Professor in History and Theory of
Architecture.Dr. Pérez-Gómez is the author of numerous volumes of
architectural scholarship. Polyphilo or The Dark Forest Revisited (MIT
Press, 1992), an erotic narrative/theory of architecture that retells
the love story of the famous fifteenth century novel/treatise
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili in late twentieth-century terms, a text that
has become the source of numerous projects and exhibitions
(http://www.polyphilo.com). A Spanish version translated by the author
was published as El Sueño de Polyfilo. El Origen Erótico del
Significado Arquitectónico (Universidad Iberoamericana, 2012). He was
co-editor of the well-known book series CHORA: Intervals in the
Philosophy of Architecture vol. 1-7 (McGill-Queen's University Press)
together with Stephen Parcell, which collects essays exploring
fundamental questions concerning the practice of architecture through
its history and theories. He co-authored a major book with Louise
Pelletier, Architectural Representation and the Perspective Hinge (MIT
Press, 1997), tracing the history and theory of modern European
architectural representation, with special reference to the role of
projection in architectural design. In Built Upon Love: Architectural
Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics (MIT Press, 2006), Pérez-Gómez
examines points of convergence between ethics and poetics in
architectural history and philosophy, and draws important conclusions
for contemporary practice. His most recent title, Attunement,
Architectural Meaning after the Crisis of Modern Science (MIT Press,
2016) calls for an architecture that can enhance our human values and
capacities, an architecture that is connectedâ€"attunedâ€"to its
location and its inhabitants. Architecture, Pérez-Gómez explains,
operates as a communicative setting for societies; its beauty and its
meaning lie in its connection to human health and self-understanding.
architectural historian. He is also well known as an theorist with an
orientation rooted in a phenomenological approach to architecture.Born
December 24, 1949, in Mexico City he graduated as an engineer and
architect from the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico.
Afterwards he did postgraduate work at Cornell University. He then
pursued graduate studies in the History and Theory of Architecture at
the University of Essex where he received his Master of Arts in 1975
and Ph.D. in 1979. In 1987 he became a Canadian Citizen and a Quebec
resident. In 1984, he won the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award for his book
Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science. He has taught and
lectured at various schools of architecture around the world and was
director of the Carleton University School of Architecture from 1983
to 1986. Currently, he runs the History and Theory of Architecture
program at the McGill University School of Architecture, where he is
the Saidye Rosner Bronfman Professor in History and Theory of
Architecture.Dr. Pérez-Gómez is the author of numerous volumes of
architectural scholarship. Polyphilo or The Dark Forest Revisited (MIT
Press, 1992), an erotic narrative/theory of architecture that retells
the love story of the famous fifteenth century novel/treatise
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili in late twentieth-century terms, a text that
has become the source of numerous projects and exhibitions
(http://www.polyphilo.com). A Spanish version translated by the author
was published as El Sueño de Polyfilo. El Origen Erótico del
Significado Arquitectónico (Universidad Iberoamericana, 2012). He was
co-editor of the well-known book series CHORA: Intervals in the
Philosophy of Architecture vol. 1-7 (McGill-Queen's University Press)
together with Stephen Parcell, which collects essays exploring
fundamental questions concerning the practice of architecture through
its history and theories. He co-authored a major book with Louise
Pelletier, Architectural Representation and the Perspective Hinge (MIT
Press, 1997), tracing the history and theory of modern European
architectural representation, with special reference to the role of
projection in architectural design. In Built Upon Love: Architectural
Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics (MIT Press, 2006), Pérez-Gómez
examines points of convergence between ethics and poetics in
architectural history and philosophy, and draws important conclusions
for contemporary practice. His most recent title, Attunement,
Architectural Meaning after the Crisis of Modern Science (MIT Press,
2016) calls for an architecture that can enhance our human values and
capacities, an architecture that is connectedâ€"attunedâ€"to its
location and its inhabitants. Architecture, Pérez-Gómez explains,
operates as a communicative setting for societies; its beauty and its
meaning lie in its connection to human health and self-understanding.
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