{"product_id":"attunement-1","title":"Attunement: Architectural Meaning After The Crisis Of Modern Science","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow architecture can move beyond the contemporary enthusiasms for the technically sustainable and the formally dazzling to enhance our human values and capacities.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eArchitecture remains in crisis, its social relevance lost between the two poles of formal innovation and technical sustainability. In \u003ci\u003eAttunement\u003c\/i\u003e, Alberto Pérez-Gómez 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, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur physical places are of utmost importance for our well-being. Drawing on recent work in embodied cognition, Pérez-Gómez 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePérez-Gómez views architecture through the lens of mood and atmosphere, linking these ideas to the key German concept of \u003ci\u003eStimmung\u003c\/i\u003e—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 \u003ci\u003eStimmung\u003c\/i\u003e might be put to work today to realize the contemporary possibilities of attunement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46227632423122,"sku":"9780262528641","price":54.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46227632455890,"sku":"25ed5325-278f-3c49-a0fa-74074313613d","price":43.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_50d26129-05a1-44e6-9ded-24d40e9a9f33.jpg?v=1763717756","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/products\/attunement-1","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}