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Surrealism and Architectural Atmosphere
Author(s) -
PérezGómez Alberto
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.2275
Subject(s) - atmosphere (unit) , poetics , imitation , architecture , convergence (economics) , art history , musical , architectural theory , history of architecture , art , aesthetics , visual arts , sociology , history , literature , poetry , psychology , geography , social psychology , economic growth , economics , meteorology
The concept of atmosphere in present architectural theory has many points of convergence with the insights of 20th‐century Surrealism. Alberto Pérez‐Gómez – Saidye Rosner Bronfman Professor of the History of Architecture at McGill University in Montreal – here examines themes including desire, poetics, musical affinities and the risks of stylistic imitation, with reference to writers from André Breton to Octavio Paz and from Edmund Husserl to Maurice Merleau‐Ponty.