{"product_id":"9780262333337","title":"Attunement: Architectural Meaning after the Crisis of Modern Science","description":"Architecture 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.Our 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.Pérez-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.","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47113582772464,"sku":"9780262333337","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780262333337_p0.jpg?v=1763682391","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780262333337","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}