Polyphilo: Or the Dark Forest Revisited - An Erotic Epiphany of Architecture
MIT Press (MA), August 1992. Cloth. Used - Very Good / Very Good. Item #299483
ISBN: 026216129X
This book explores the origins of architectural beauty in the dynamics of sexual desire. It is a departure from the conventional genres of architectural writing and 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 and regarded as one of the most enigmatic books ever published, takes place in a forest. In the retelling, the forest has been replaced by the high tech and pop environment of appliances and airports. Both versions exist somewhere in the borderland between fiction, theory, and pornography. The text is paralleled by a running sequence of photographic collages merging the body and the machine.
This remarkable book explores the origins of architectural beauty in the dynamics of sexual desire. Quarto. {7' x 10'} Black cloth covered boards with red. Red end papers. Sound binding. [311 pages]
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