Polyphilo, or the Dark Forest Revisited: An Erotic Epiphany of Architecture - Tapa blanda

" A brilliantly sharp and original reflection on the pop aspects of our visual culture.... Readers interested in Renaissance mysticism, in architecture and the technology culture, and in the erotics of comic book machismo, will be eager to read Pe rez-Go mez." -- George L. Hersey, Yale University & quot; A brilliantly sharp and original reflection on the pop aspects of our visual culture.... Readers interested in Renaissance mysticism, in architecture and the technology culture, and in the erotics of comic book machismo, will be eager to read P& eacute; rez-G& oacute; mez.& quot; -- George L. Hersey, Yale University "A brilliantly sharp and original reflection on the pop aspects of our visual culture.... Readers interested in Renaissance mysticism, in architecture and the technology culture, and in the erotics of comic book machismo, will be eager to read Perez-Gomez."--George L. Hersey, Yale University

Departing from the conventional genres of architectural writing, this book is an original reflection on the erotics of architecture. Perez-Gomez retells the love story of the famous Renaissance novel/treatise "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili"in late 20th-century terms. The original work, long a cult book among architects, takes place in a forest. In the retelling, the forest has been replaced by the high-tech environment of appliances and airports. Both versions exist somewhere in the borderland between fiction, theory and pornography.