Alberto Pérez-Gómez
Alberto Pérez-Gómez (born 24 December 1949, Mexico) is an architectural historian and is also well known as an architectural theorist and a promoter of a phenomenological approach to architecture.
Biography
Born December 24, 1949 in Mexico City, Mexico, he graduated as an engineer and architect from the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico and 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 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 manages 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. Together with Stephen Parcell, he is editor of the book series CHORA: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture. He has also published poetry in Spanish.
Publications
- Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science (1983) ISBN 0-262-16091-9
- Polyphilo, or, The Dark Forest Revisited : an Erotic Epiphany of Architecture (1992) ISBN 0-262-66090-3
- Architectural Representation and the Perspective Hinge with Louise Pelletier (2003) ISBN 0-262-16169-9
- Anamorphosis (1997) ISBN 0-7735-1450-3
- Built upon Love: Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics (2006) ISBN 0-262-16238-5
See also
- Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
- Marco Frascari
- Gregory Henriquez
- Joseph Rykwert
- Dalibor Vesely
- Nader El-Bizri
- David Leatherbarrow
- Robert Tavernor
- Architecture theory
- Reconciling Poetics and Ethics in Architecture Conference 2007
- McGill University School of Architecture
External links
- McGill University faculty page
- History and Theory of Architecture homepage
- Hermeneutics as Architectural Discourse article
- Modern Architecture, Abstraction, and the Poetic Imagination
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