{"product_id":"attunement","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":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50947576758560,"sku":"9780262528641","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9780262528641.jpg?v=1763589693","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/products\/attunement","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}